Word: corner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headed off for home alone and at her corner, a man standing in a darkened doorway, leered at her and exposed himself...
...room looks like a scene from Fame. About 20 students garbed in dancer chic--leotards, leg warmers, and tights--fling themselves across the room to the rhythm provided by the pianist in the corner. The teacher stops and the students start the dance "one more time" as they wipe the sweat off their brows...
...Puerto Rican Godfather, someone named Julio, doesn't look as if he would be capable of throwing over a candy store let alone masterminding a huge cocaine-importing business. But this typecasting aside, he somehow manages to corner the detectives into turning over a haul of cocaine. Julio does that by kidnapping Costanzo's about-to-be-remarried ex-wife and holding her hostage in a glass elevator at the top of the State Building in downtown Chicago...
...adamantly insists on getting home by 7 p.m. to see his daughter Theresa Anne, 9. He is said to be reluctant to plunge his wife Ernestine, a professor of comparative literature at Montclair State College, into the hurly-burly of a national campaign. "If you backed me into a corner right now, I'd say I wasn't running in 1988," he says. In fact, he has laid none of the necessary groundwork, such as amassing a war chest or flying off to speak in early primary states like New Hampshire. Says Media Adviser Kaye: "He'll run when...
...playing this game don't look at the bottom right corner of the board. There lies a morbid reminder of one of the most severe cancers eating at the heart of this great nation of ours...