Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard raised its margin to 3-0 after six minutes of the second period, when first-line wing Bob Fredo slid a perfectly placed 30-footer into the goal's lower right corner...
...with the war in Viet Nam. As the London Economist observed: "The North Koreans are trying to divert American attention from what could be a decisive battle in Viet Nam." That battle, shaping up around the U.S. Marine base of Khe Sanh in South Viet Nam's northwest corner, could be the biggest of the war. The Communists would not only like to distract U.S. attention and resources from that battle but also combine the humiliation of the Pueblo's seizure with a U.S. defeat, or at least a major bloodletting. Such a one-two punch, they might...
...will not be fully free until we smash the state completely and totally," cried William Epton in a street-corner harangue on the first night of the 1964 Harlem riots. Later that evening he added: "In that process, we're going to have to kill a lot of these cops, a lot of these judges, and we'll have to go up against their army." A onetime Communist who thought that the Party was too restrained and resigned to help organize the Peking-oriented Progressive Labor Movement, Epton was arrested and eventually convicted in a New York court...
...Marty, it cuts off a slice of life about an Italian-American bank teller who falls in love with a girl he meets on the Staten Island ferry, deserts her when he discovers that she was once raped, and returns to the vulgar bachelor world of his street-corner cronies. Flawed and immature in plot and structure, First nonetheless has an exact sense of the Lower Manhattan milieu and some authentic and hard-edged dialogue-but almost no commercial possibilities. Scorsese, who put up $6,000 of his own savings to direct the movie, is now filming TV commercials...
...even as it was sliding into the red, the company was turning a corner. Much of the 1966 loss could be traced to the fact that it had decided to write off its entire inventory of obsolescent machines and concentrate on a new copier called the Super-Stat. President Clayton Rautbord, 40, also increased his company's sales force. The payoff has been handsome. A compact, relatively low-cost ($985) machine, the Super-Stat has caught on where the company's earlier dry-process copiers foundered. Last week Rautbord announced record 1967 sales of $35,618,000. Even...