Word: corking
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...Roberts of Holladay, Utah, was having trouble opening a plastic two-liter bottle of Diet 7-Up. So she took a wrench to it, as she had many times in the past, but the results were disastrous. The top shot off like a champagne cork and struck her in the left eye, destroying most of the iris...
...stories! The first major storm, according to Janis, "built and built and built and lasted 24 hours. There's nothing you can do 300 miles from a coast but button it up and bob like a cork until it blows over. I don't like weather like that, but I don't panic. Things break all over the place, and you have to find a port and get them fixed...
...residence comes equipped with a spacious sun porch; Prince Orlofsky's pleasure palace boasts both a grand foyer and a palm-court refectory that make Maxim's look understated. When it comes to grandeur, Otto Schenk and Gunther Schneider-Siemssen's magnum of a production has popped its cork...
...Harvardians are all set. We've got our tickets, our seating blocks, our booze and our "Yale sucks!" gear. All we have to do now is make it across the river to the Stadium, and wait for the first cork...
...kept her in the city, and his illness tied him to Yalta. He died at age 44, drinking champagne with Olga at his bedside. The death scene is cordon bleu Chekhov. A large black moth flutters into the room, and as the body of the famous man cools, the cork pops out of the wine bottle. It is the loudest sound in this beautifully modulated book...