Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JUST AROUND THE CORNER: A HIGHLY SELECTIVE HISTORY OF THE THIRTIES, by Robert Bendiner. A rollicking, impressionistic recollection of the many absurdities that grew and flourished mightily during the Great Depression...
...Chicago businessman). Indeed, so many bowled-over guests blurt out "Jeez!"-or stronger-when they first gaze up into 21 stories of space that hotel employees have already dubbed the spot in the lobby where the full height is first glimpsed with a name of its own: Profanity Corner...
...profit from rising civilian demand. Orders for Caravelles, Tridents and null have been disappointing, and British, French and West German manufacturers are struggling to get a medium-distance "Airbus" off the drawing boards. Plans now call for delivery in 1971. In the meantime, U.S. companies may well corner most of the market for subsonic jet transports...
...Craa swelters in the middle of a moonscape of endless dunes and burned-out scrub. It is an ancient cross roads for camel caravans and fierce des ert nomads in their swirling burnooses. For years, Spanish Foreign Legionnaires in their whitewashed forts knew Bu-Craa as a lonely corner of the end of the world...
...administrators are measuring their success in terms of relatively short-term market performance. In effect, they set a target on a growth stock, attain that target, unload, and then seek other opportunities for quick capital gains." Given the size of their buying power, said Martin, such activity "may virtually corner the market in individual stocks," at the least cause undesirable price fluctuations. "Practices of this nature" said he, "contain poisonous qualities reminiscent of some respects of the old pool operations of the 1920s...