Word: corks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long as three football fields, buoyant as a bobbing cork, the El Paso Sonatrach will cruise into Chesapeake Bay next week on a historic voyage. The $100 million tanker will tie up at Cove Point, Md., a once bucolic spot on the western shore of the bay. There, it will discharge liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Arzew, Algeria, into the nation's first superport designed specifically to receive...
...yeah, it's called "The Inherent Dishabille of the Fourteenth Crack from the Left on the Blarney Stone and Its Psychotraumatic Relevance to Tongue Elevation in Elementary Gaelic, Grades 1-3, County Cork...
...from the next room came the laughter of his third wife, Veronica, and another daughter. The room filled gradually with relatives, gym figures, musicians, sycophants, friends. His dietician entered, carrying a bushel bag of carrots. The champ suddenly clucked. Everyone jumped. This sound of a popping champagne cork is Ali's command signal. It was a summons for his infant daughter, Laila, dutifully brought in by her nanny and admired by the claque...
...themselves into a SHOW, and forthwith commence forming a kickline. Someone pulls out a flute. Someone else pulls out an oboe. Someone else pulls out a drum set. OF THEIR OWN VOLITION, as if they had lives of their own, the puns arrange themselves into songs, into dances. Poppa Cork, the aging curator of the Hasty Pudding building, comes downstairs to see what's the matter...
...handling the lights at strip shows featuring Lili St. Cyr and Sally Rand. He got a scholarship to Princeton, earned two master's degrees and a Ph.D. in economics, taught for a while but switched to the more exciting world of business, joining a subsidiary of Crown Cork & Seal, where he quickly climbed to vice president and director. In 1963, he was named the U.S. ambassador to the Kennedy Round of international trade talks in Geneva. There he proved to be a tough negotiator, showing qualities that still linger. Says a Treasury aide: "I've never seen...