Word: corks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sailing along the American coast ?a possible exchange for some captured English officer. Word of Allen's fate came from a fellow prisoner who jumped overboard from a ship in the convoy and swam to the North Carolina shore. He also reported that when the convoy stopped at Cork in February, Allen was greeted ecstatically by sympathetic Irishmen, who showered on Allen such luxuries as wool cloth for suits, a couple of beaver hats, several turkeys, sugar loaves and pickled beef...
Bernard O'Sullivan Cork, Ireland...
When the water hit the power plant below, recalls Howard, "it just disintegrated. The water picked up a huge oil tank like a cork and away it went. There was a beautiful grove of cottonwood trees down below, and they were snapped off like matchsticks. Later I could see the water out on the plain. It was almost like a surrealist picture; as the water hit some of the farm fields, you could see an eerie cloud of dust and mist rise up three to five miles away...
Maps, analemmas, collaged owls and jigsawed parrots, mirrors, watchsprings, scraps of tulle, cones and cork balls, wine glasses, sodium-browned photographs of long-dead dancers, tiny drawers filled with red sand-there is no apparent limit to the variety that found its way into Cornell's boxes, and any list of them begins to sound more like incantation than description...
...thumb side of that fist against the victim's abdomen above the navel but below the rib cage, the rescuer presses his fist sharply upward. This elevates the diaphragm and compresses the lungs, increasing the air pressure within the windpipe and forcing the food particle out like a cork from a champagne bottle. Since Heimlich began popularizing it a year and a half ago, his hug of life has been used on some 374 potential choking and drowning victims-one only nine months old. All survived...