Word: corner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shopping for socks used to mean dragging one's threadbare feet to the most obscure corner of the department store. No more: socks have come to the storefront. From London to New York City to Los Angeles, hundreds of quick- stop sock shops are sprouting up all over, purveying hip leg wear to a crowd of hurried shoppers. The sock emporiums typically offer attentive service and an eccentric inventory of hose adorned with happy faces, world maps, tie-dyed patterns, jack-o'-lanterns and even Scottie-dog appliques...
Meanwhile, the ranks of opposition Democrats continued to grow as Sen. Terry Sanford (D-N.C.), a Southern Democrat the administration hoped to see in its corner, said he would vote against the nomination. Sens. Alan Cranston (D-Calif) and Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) also said they would oppose the nomination--raising the number of opposition Democrats...
...back and forth at the right side of the net while Young moved into position at the other side of the goal. But Young never had a chance to touch the puck. MacDonald angled a shot that slid behind Fletcher, bumping against him and falling into the front left corner of the goal...
...doubt Baker will have better weeks. It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world out there, and a Secretary of State can scarcely be expected to have mastered every corner of it in three weeks on the job. Up to now Baker has led a charmed official life. It may have taken a pair of striped pants for him to realize that even he puts his trousers on one leg at a time...
...example, when the Orson Welles Cinema, an independent movie theater located on the corner of Mass. Ave. and Dana St., burned down in the spring of 1986, it was eventually replaced by a host of new high-tech, upscale stores such as Videosmith, Digital Record, Toppers and The Furniture Store...