Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undaunted Crimson kept up the pressure as the second quarter opened and forced a corner kick from the dangerous east corner, where the wind and a right-footer's natural hook combined to curve the ball into the goalmouth...
...Cornell defense cleared Robertson's first two tries over the end line, but on the third corner a Big Red back jumped into Harvard's Ahmed Yehia and the game's second penalty kick was awarded...
Cornell played with the wind in the first of the two five-minute overtime periods and used it to go ahead. A high corner kick from the east corner eluded substitute goalie Jay Beese's grasp and twisted into the goal...
Locksley was taken from the field by an ambulance late in the third quarter after a Cornell corner kick. The sophomore goalie was knocked off balance by Cornell's center half as they both went for the ball, which Locksley grabbed, and he injured his back when he fell...
...book, some readers might be dismayed by the thought of yet another Jewish novel. What with The Fixer by Malamud, The Chosen by Potok, and Fathers by Herbert Gold, not to mention a score of nonfiction books on Jewish themes recently, the public may well suspect a conspiracy to corner the literary market. But Singer is different and special. A deceptively frail, birdlike presence, he inhabits with iron realism a no man's land somewhere in the middle of a life of contradictions divided between 31 years spent in his native Poland and 32 years in his adopted home...