Word: uncork
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...which has worked hard for the peaceful transition of power, resumed diplomatic relations and prepared to uncork an outpouring of economic aid. To pump new life into the Dominican economy, which was bled white by the treasury-looting Trujillo clan...
What has grown up is a legal crazy quilt. In New York, for example, saloons may uncork their Sunday bottles at 1 p.m., but Sunday baseball games may not begin until an hour later. In Pennsylvania, merchants may sell books on Sunday, but not records. In North Dakota, shoeshine boys may work on Sunday, but no one may buy shoe polish...
...until the very end of the turgid sessions did Comrade Gomulka uncork his surprise: he had edged 14 of his most bitter enemies off the important 75-member Central Committee. These were the hardcore, Moscow-First group who had tried to keep Gomulka out of office in the first place, and determinedly opposed the bloodless revolution that brought Poles a measure of freedom in 1956. Gomulka also beefed up the party's nine-man Politburo by adding two of his friends to its ranks...
...Angeles, Shotputter Parry O'Brien was watching a track meet from the stands, saw University of Southern California Freshman Dallas Long uncork a heave of 63 ft. 4 in., apparently breaking O'Brien's world record. O'Brien promptly left his seat, changed into a track suit, went out and heaved the shot 63 ft. 6 in. Said O'Brien: "I had to do it. What would people think?" But neither performance counted because the field sloped...
...world's biggest magnesium plant. Around it, the Government built a brand-new town, called Henderson. At war's end, the plant shut down; its vast shops were used as warehouses. But last week the U.S. was putting the big plant back to work again to uncork one of the tightest bottlenecks in jet aircraft production. Pittsburgh's Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. and Manhattan's National Lead Co. announced that their jointly owned Titanium Metals Corp., with a fiveyear, $14,163,000 tax write-off from the Government, is converting the plant to mass production...