Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Karen Leslie (Helen) presented a vaudeville version of a whore. She rolled her eyes, knocked her knees, travelled from corner to corner like frantic lizard. She was too flashy to be forty. And she never indicated that in spite of their daily bickering matches, a bond exists between mother and daughter...
...nurse finally calls you over to the corner where half a dozen people, thermometers in mouths, sit lined up against the wall. "What is the nature of your problem?" she asks, looking at the little card on which you checked "medical" (as opposed to "innoculations"). You answer that you just want to talk to one of the doctors. "Oh, then you're not sick." Her face is blank, unknowing, all-knowing. "Please take a seat." The thermometer stays on her desk...
...with their sole "probable cause" for arrest. As long as police have such cause for arrest, they can search a suspect for the evidence that may convict him. But two Chicago policemen were sharply challenged in court in 1964 after they arrested one George McCray on a Chicago street corner, searched him and found heroin. At a pretrial hearing, the cops testified that they had been tipped off by a reliable informer, whom they refused to identify. McCray's lawyers demanded the informer's name; if he did not exist, there was no "probable cause" and the heroin...
...This is Mac calling all the team." The voice crackles with authority as loudspeakers carry it to every corner of the sprawling aerospace plant on the rim of St. Louis' Lambert Field. It sparkles with an enthusiasm that rises above the inescapable racket of jet aviation?the rumble of commercial planes lifting off the long runways, the ear-shattering passage of military fighters climbing aloft on steep, improbable curves...
...house in the St. Louis suburb of Ladue, he reads papers and reaches decisions. At the plant, amid the wail of Phantoms taking off to fly directly to Viet Nam (with the help of in-flight refueling and an Okinawa stop), he operates out of a spacious but spartan corner office, with a scuffed carpet and hand-me-down, imitation-leather chairs...