Word: corner
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Hays Gorey and his wife Nonie were visiting friends in Washington one summer ! evening in 1959 when their hosts dragged them along to a lawn party. Sipping a drink in a dark corner of the yard, Gorey was startled by a rustling in the hedges. A party crasher? When the intruder emerged from a gap between the shrubs, Gorey recognized him instantly and asked, "Senator, do you usually enter parties this...
...Harvard's biggest objection was that the Growers' Market is potentially a housing site," said Spiegelman, referring to an undeveloped parcel of land at the corner of Western Ave. and Memorial Drive. Under existing zoning regulations, Harvard would be permitted to build 320 units of housing on the site, Spiegelman said, and the petition would reduce that limit to 80 units...
...Tooth Fairy? Well, about these clubs....You know, I guess you could call a flooding basement an "unparalleled resource"...I mean, I know some guys in the Sahara who would kill for one of these. And our pool table is fairly "unparalleled" as well. The way the right corner pocket just sucks the balls right in, like a magnet. And the cockroaches that have been known to stampede across the kitchen floor. I guess they're pretty "unparalleled" too. Bio labs across the country would pay a fortune for a living specimen (a nearly impossible request: they were very fast...
...other goal sequence, Pennoyer looked like he was going to follow in follow defender Gates' footprints as he sprinted across the midfield line straight towards the cage. As he approached the net, Pennoyer dumped the ball off to Raymond, who pegged the upper corner...
Picture phones have been just around the corner for 30 years. Now they are finally starting to appear in U.S. homes and offices. Since last fall, Mitsubishi Electric of America has sold 64,000 of its new VisiTel units, a $400 device that looks like a TV with a 4 1/2-in. screen but also has a built- in camera lens and a cord that plugs into a telephone jack. Callers who pose in front of a VisiTel and push the button marked "send" can swap black- and- white "snapshots" of each other over the phone lines -- provided, of course, that...