Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was no warning, beyond ominous arcs of green flares overhead. In Mexico City's Plaza of the Three Cultures, a student speaker had urged his 6,000 listeners to "please go home after this meeting is over. We do not believe in useless bloodshed." Suddenly, from one corner of the plaza, the troops appeared. They formed a cordon around the crowd and moved in - shooting and bayoneting as they went...
...North's universities, the kids in the South are seeing racism stripped of its Northern subtleties. They have come to see the South's dirt, and the South rubs the dirt into their eyes. They ignore places like The Plantation House, concentrate on truck stops and corner gas stations. They leave the South convinced that it must be hell...
...Crimson's only goal came with five minutes gone in the last quarter when junior Ben Phinney picked up a loose ball at the left edge of the penalty area and booted a hard shot into the corner...
Schillebeeckx has not yet decided whether to attend the hearing. If the Vatican pursues the case, he will have two powerful allies in his corner. His friend, German Jesuit Karl Rahner, who is Schillebeeckx's only peer as a speculative theologian, has been appointed as his court defender. And Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink of Utrecht has made it clear that a condemnation of Schillebeeckx would be an unwarranted condemnation of the entire Dutch church...
Goalie Jim Sawhill came through with the most exciting save of the game late in the fourth quarter to preserve a Harvard shutout. Diving for a shot which hit the crossbar in the far corner of the goal. Sawhill managed to recover fast enough to come all the way back across the goal to block M.I.T.'s follow-up to the near corner...