Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former Israeli Ambassador to Warsaw, Dov Sattath, who reported receiving 3,200 letters of support from Polish gentiles during the Middle East crisis. Most were signed and bore the sender's address-an act of considerable courage in a country where the censor is as ubiquitous as the corner mailbox...
...Wall Street brokerage house, Emil Sr. had already climbed so far as an investor that he could buy "Brook Hills," a 43-acre estate in White Plains, N.Y. George Gershwin was a frequent visitor, wrote most of Porgy and Bess in a guest cottage tucked away on a corner of the grounds. The Mosbachers wintered comfortably in Palm Beach; summers were given oyer to sailing on Long Island Sound, first in the family shell boat, and then, when Bus was nine, in his own boat: a Star. That August, with coaching from his father's professional helmsman, he entered...
...buying films took them around Europe, and that is where their catholic taste in true (as the French say) led them to corner the market in Polish movie posters, build up the second most exotic stock of candy in the U.S., and become virtually the No. 1 beeswax candle outlet in this country...
...axis of the nation," drawings were completed for a new $60 million FBI building, the first major federal building to go up on the avenue in a quarter of a century. The monumental structure, designed by Chicago's C. F. Murphy Assocs., will stand at the corner of the proposed new "Market Square," to occupy one side of Pennsylvania Avenue between Seventh and Ninth streets. The imposing facade will rise the maximum 160 ft. permitted above Pennsylvania Avenue, beyond a 50-ft.-wide sidewalk (the other three sides of the building will be set off by a sunken garden...
...family income is $4,000, of the distance he still has to travel. Impatience is another ingredient. All the civil rights bills, the Supreme Court decisions and the Great Society programs of recent years led many a Negro to expect that equality and prosperity were just around the next corner. "It hasn't happened," said Michigan's Governor George Romney, "and a lot of people are frustrated and bitter about it." "Nothing is so unstable," said William V. Shannon in the New York Times, "as a bad situation that is beginning to improve." Outside agitation may play...