Word: corks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superstructure is bent and twisted. Stack and masts are gone. Abovedeck quarters are oil-blackened ruins. Ranges in the crew's galley are thick with rust. The once-elaborate captain's cabin is a mess of shattered furniture, moldering linoleum. The cork-lined deckhead is caving in. ... The wooden deck is pocked with the borings of teredos (shipworms). . . . From her opened hatches comes the nauseating odor of gases. Inside her foul carcass are rotting vegetables, meats, ship's supplies, human bodies. ... In the horrible, blackened wreckage of the crew's quarters you can still...
...even bigger and better than last year. As Jesus Maria San Roma, the famous pianist, sat, fingers poised over the keys and Fieldler lifted his baton, and the whole audience sat hushed and intent on listening to Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto Number 2 in C Minor, "Pop!" went the cork of a champagne botite. A giggle gained momentum as it spread throughout Symphony Hall...
...Burnt Cork, owned by Negro Comic Rochester (Eddie Anderson), Jack Benny's radio stooge...
...times. He was interested, beyond dilettantism, in agriculture, architecture, languages, literature, music, religion, astronomy, zoology, chemistry, mathematics. He designed Monticello, filled it with inventions like the first dumbwaiter, first swivel chair, a weather vane which could be read by a dial indoors. He introduced the first upland rice and cork oak to U.S. soil...
...return for oil sold to Spain, the U.S. gets substantial amounts of various strategic materials, including mercury, cork and wolfram (for tungsten...