Word: corks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cork Trees and Seduction. Count Grandsailles was France's most brilliant statesman. "With the leftist ideas of his right-hand partner the Count would mildly bring out the rightist ideas of his left-hand partner, and with the rightist ideas of his left-hand partner, he would moderately develop the leftist ideas of his right-hand partner." His chief passion was planting cork trees. But for five years the Count had practised "mutual seduction" with beautiful Solange de Cleda. A horse-lover, he "was always tempted to tap Solange on the buttocks and give her a piece of sugar...
...Hold the Cork." Not until some time after Christmas Day did residents of Manila begin to feel real anxiety. Up to that time bleary-eyed Americans stood in jovial groups around Manila's bars. Skittish ones started a run on stores, buying out bandages, iodine, flashlights. A retired major began to see Japs crawling out of whiskey bottles and had to be confined as a nervous case. But everyone was sure that help was on the way. MacArthur beamed with pride over a congratulatory message from President Roosevelt: "Keep up the good work...
...January MacArthur said: "The enemy may hold the bottle but I hold the cork." He had moved his headquarters to Corregidor...
...Dear Mr. Roosevelt!" He may or may not have realized how soon the cork was going to blow out. Far to the south the Jap tornado was engulfing Borneo and rolling into the Solomon Islands. In the middle of February Singapore fell as casually as a shrug. Then the Japs turned their fury back on the Philippines...
...April 8, the cork blew out. Bataan was gone, thousands were dead. Thousands had fallen into the hands of Homma's frenzied and victorious troops. Only a few got across the strait to Corregidor...