Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great. Entertainment at your fingertips. Kids who grow more loving, not more demanding, every decade. Hope for the once hopelessly ill. Vaccines against emergencies. Insurance against 90% of all hardships. A moving, fluid society which groups and regroups everywhere you go, until you are receiving Christmas cards from every corner of the world...
Coach, Floyd Wilson will have trouble replacing Royer, who could be out of action for as long as a month. Tonight he will probably try Bob Johnson in the corner to see if the junior guard can compensate for his 6-2 height with his shooting and agility...
Fright & Madness. Out of the corner of his eye, Goodman noticed a shadowy movement. It was a dog that had been feeding on his son's body. Soon, two other dogs appeared, and Goodman found himself fighting for his life. Hoisting Gene's body over his shoulder, and using his free hand to throw rocks and branches at the attack ing animals, Goodman ran as fast as he could. As he neared his home, the dogs finally gave up the chase. Goodman was so overwrought and exhausted that he passed out. Later, a posse of about 50 neighbors...
...Goya. Last June, Madrid's Prado Museum decided to have The Family of Charles IV cleaned and rebacked with a fresh canvas. When the first layer of grime was removed the Prado's assistant director, Xavier de Salas, made a startling discovery. In the upper left-hand corner, a dark picture hanging on the palace wall turned out to depict a nude man and two seminude women. The man is caressing one woman's thighs, and his face, though youthful, dark and gaunt with the strain of the bacchanal, is, says De Salas, "Goya, without any doubt...
...headed for trouble. He and his pals raised quite a bit of hell, hanging around pool parlors (where Bob became a pretty good hustler), swiping things from the local stores. He straightened out soon enough, and for a while sold newspapers on a street corner. John D. Rockefeller used to come by in his chauffeured car every day to pick up his 20 paper. One rainy afternoon the old millionaire handed Bob a dime. Hope had no change, so he offered to trust Rockefeller for the money. "He wouldn't hear of it," recalls...