Word: corks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After that, De Lorean began losing his credibility, if not his cool. In an effort to get his plant back from the hands of British receivers, he appears to have invented investors he said were poised for the rescue. Sir Kenneth Cork, one of the two British receivers, said last week, "They were always shadowy people whose names we never learnt. There would be a telex saying businessmen would put up so much, but always on the condition they were not named. They never emerged into daylight...
Only hours before his arrest, De Lorean said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. that the money was in a U.S. bank, but neither receiver could confirm it. Said Cork: "Right at the bitter end I was receiving telexes saying the money was definitely available. We said, 'Fine, but let's see it in a bank account,' and that never transpired...
...trip started on Sept. 1 when the 16 players, newlywed Coach Edie MacAusland Mabrey and new Assistant Coach Brooke Watson flew into Shannon. After a day of rest, the team began a hectic schedule of traveling, afternoon practices, and night games. The first stop was Cork, and from there they traveled to Dublin for a few days. A three-day stint in Belfast followed, then on to Causeway and back home...
...command, is about to take off with a crew of cadets on a training mission, and Kirk decides to come along. Equally luckily, "the wrath of Khan" has been bottled up out there in the galaxy, steeping in its own malevolence, just waiting for someone to pull the cork. It happens that Khan, played by Ricardo Montalban, who appears delighted to send his dinner jacket to the cleaners and slip into something scruffy, blames Kirk for all his troubles. It seems the captain marooned him, his family and crew on a forbidding planet 15 years earlier. Now he decides...
Peppered by criticism in what he called "our sabotage press," Truman frequently read the newspapers and blew his cork. He lectured reporters on the sins of their profession, calling William Randolph Hearst "the No. 1 whore monger of our time" and Columnist Westbrook Pegler "the greatest character assassin in the United States." Other public figures earned his unposted scorn, including "Squirrel Head Nixon" and Senator Estes Kefauver, whom Truman called "Cow-fever." Explaining his decision to relieve General Douglas MacArthur of command during the Korean War, he mentioned the "insubordination of God's right hand man." During...