Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of Cesar's ire was occasioned by the fact that Richard Smith, 35, an Englishman who divides his time between New York and London, won the $10,000 grand prize. His particular bag is the shaped canvas, in which the aluminum frame is turned up at one corner to give the stretched canvas the smooth curve of a semi-bas-relief. There are six such squares of canvas, each painted in a light, bright acrylic color. The series bears the Beatlesque title, A Whole Year and Half Day, and seven of the nine critics on the international jury...
...into one Orwellian information bank, as some officials have proposed, a man's life may well be available at the punch of a button. When all financial transactions begin to be carried out by a universal credit-card and automatic-bill paying system, Westin says that hardly a corner of a man's life will be left dark...
Hoeppner headed in a corner kick by Keppel three minutes into the second quarter for Harvard's second score...
Then thousands poured into the street and began walking rapidly to the hotel. Mothers pushed baby carriages, and many children were perched on their fathers' shoulders. They marched past the park and up the Avenue of the Stars into Century City at the corner where the 20-story Century Towers apartment building stood, spanking new. The marchers were separated from opposite traffic by wide boulevards covered with orange and purple flowers...
...line reached the hotel, the march stopped. Nobody knows quite why it did so. Police charge it was intentional, but the protest leaders say they wanted only to walk past the hotel. They claim the police narrowed the marching path from four lanes to two lanes at the corner just past the hotel, which caused congestion similar to that caused by a freeway's being narrowed to two driving lanes. Another factor could be that an enormous number of people who had been standing ten deep in front of the hotel waiting to see the parade, joined it when...