Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were torn down to make way for a new junior high school. The obvious answer was Central Park, but New Yorkers have come to regard the park as sacrosanct, have fiercely resisted any infringement, including even the philanthropic offer of Huntington Hartford to build a terraced cafe in one corner. The solution, as proposed by the competition-winning architectural firm of Kelly & Gruzen: bury the facilities underground. Key elements in the $5,700,000 scheme, which will leave 95% of the ten-acre site still land scaped: below-ground-level stables for 370 horses topped by a three-acre orchard...
...Crimson profited from the trade when at 18:41 Garrity spectacularly carried the puck the length of the ice. He fooled Murray Watkinson, Orr's replacement, and pinpointed a bullet into the goal's lower right corner. Only a perfect shot could pass Dryden last night...
...YEARS John Reed '10, who fought in the Russian revolution, who is buried in the Kremlin, and whose portrait hangs in an airless corner of Adams House, has been Harvard's most public Communist...
Many it the time Tate's wild imagination gets him out of a tight corner. It is our good fortune he is such a poet, because in his verse the remotest disparities succumb to his technique, and make his imagination ours. Is it possible that he has done what he seems to have done here in. "The Descent...
...insular firebird (meaning the sun) gives up the day, and is tucked into a corner. Order, like a giant janitor, shuttles about naming and replacing the various humanities. I look at you, you look at me -- We wave again (the same), our hands like swollen flags falling, words Marooned in the brain...