Word: corking
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...other that they were reduced to a half-forgotten childhood game. Someone stretched a cord across one of the manor corridors, and, so the story goes, a couple of lackadaisical wine-bibbers discovered that they still had energy enough to stick a crest of goose quills into a champagne cork. They began to bat the cork back & forth across the cord with empty bottles. Suddenly the party came to life. The makeshift net added a fascinating new dimension to the old game. Battledore and shuttlecock, that gloomy day in 1873, became badminton...
...harbor when Candido called to his sons, "Try to swim it, boys. Leave me here. I'm all right." But before the boys could reply, he slipped and fell to the deck. Without a word, Ricardo, Constantino and Manuel went to work. They seized fishing nets bordered with cork buoys and tied them securely around their father. A moment later a huge wave broke over them. On shore, the praying watchers-gave a cry, and the village priest made a sign of the Cross. Neither the Flower nor her three crewmen were seen again, but soon afterward a coast...
...Volunteer. In Ukiah, Calif., Hitchhiker Richard Jacobs showed up at police headquarters with dazed Motorist Shirley Cork, explained that because he suspected Cork of drunkenness, he had "popped him on the head," taken over the driving...
Economists know that business is slipping, but they are having trouble finding a way to describe 1) what is going on, and 2) how bad it will get. Last week, at a credit conference of the American Bankers Association in Chicago, Economist Walter E. Hoadley of the Armstrong Cork Co. produced a list of the newest expressions used by the most contemporary schools of economic thought. Samples...
When Lamont first opened its doors in January 1949, it was an immediate sensation because of the unique appearance of its physical plant. Hopes for the future and its hypothetical standing as a model undergraduate library were bruited about, but it was the miles of fluorescent lights, the cork floors, the little holes in the ceiling and its general glass-place appearance that made an immediate...