Word: corner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ferocious pit bulls can be seen any day with their drug-dealer owners on the corner of Ninth and Butler streets in North Philadelphia. The dogs, with names like Murder, Hitler and Scarface, wear metal-studded collars concealing crack and cocaine and the day's proceeds. They are equally visible on Chicago's West and South sides, where teenage boys have taken to brandishing their fierce pit bulls just as they would a switchblade or a gun. "It's a macho thing, like carrying a weapon," says Jane Alvaro of the Anti-Cruelty Society...
...Redstone Burn Center. More than half of his body is covered with burns suffered after he was struck by a sky-blue car just after midnight on the morning of July 10. Fogarty was riding his moped to his Dedham residence after work, when he was hit on the corner of Cambridge St. and Mass Ave. in Central Square...
Overall, North's defense was simple but masterly. He was just following orders. "If the Commander in Chief tells this lieutenant colonel to go stand in the corner and sit on his head," he declared, "I will do so." And if a question got sticky, North had another defense: "I don't recall." In his final morning in the week's testimony, the selective memory of the obviously bright officer failed on no fewer than 30 occasions. Earlier, North could not even recall why at one point $41 million had been deposited in the Swiss accounts controlled by Secord...
...life depended on each tune. It did, in a sense, and reclaiming himself, just this once, seemed enough. It gave him the strength to get on for another eight years. But listen to Long Black Limousine, and it's clear that Elvis knew what was waiting around the corner...
Tostado found a crack in a corner of the floor, crouched and sucked in the life-saving air. He watched the smuggler's two aides dig at the floor with the spikes. "They ran out of strength, and they were the first to die." Others took up the task, but never completed it. "People started dying, little by little," he said. Desperate for more air, Tostado hacked away with one of the spikes and finally punched through the wood. He dropped to the floor, gulping drafts of air. Tostado was now alive but alone, surrounded by bodies...