Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reading International could hardly be more different in its conception and purpose. Standing on the corner of Church and Brattle, it has huge showcase windows that are always plastered with magazines and newspapers open to groovy articles (like on the strike in 4 languages...
...country was indeed sick of the squabbling politicians who had preceded De Gaulle and whom he had witheringly described as the old hacks whose only concern is with "their own little soup pot on their own little fire in their own little corner." The French took a modest pride in De Gaulle's nuclear force de frappe, which presumably gave the nation a voice among the world powers. It even pleased the often xenophobic French that their gold reserves were sufficient to threaten the American dollar. At least the French man in the street relished De Gaulle...
Winning the Works. Down at the Café de l'Agriculture, on the corner of the Place de la République and the Rue de la Liberté, the talk turns easily to the mayor himself. The men around the bar call Dabard "our own little De Gaulle" and yarn about his imperious tactics. The new water works? Ah, well, Dabard knew that the town council disapproved, so he appointed an independent commission to "study" the plan. To no one's surprise, the commission thought the project was splendid, and Dabard signed a construction contract. The council...
...Privately, many members agreed that Robertson's award was based more on promotion than on performance. Nor is there any reason to expect otherwise. Ads sell movies, runs the Hollywood rationale, why shouldn't they sell movie actors? Politicians run for office and executives finesse for the corner offices; performers ought to be allowed a little jockeying for position...
...final session, Ince and Regan combined again for an 8-3 Crimson advantage. A minute later, Regan dodged two men and rifled a shot into the upper right hand corner of the net from ten feet out Ince termed it "the nicest goal of the game...