Word: corneres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Averaging about two minutes a floor, George Willig, 27, climbed steadily up the northeast corner of the great south tower. He moved with a touch of éclat and a forthright manner that clearly indicated he knew what he was doing. An experienced mountain climber, Willig had been planning his adventure for a year. He had punctiliously taken a day of leave from his job as a designer for the Ideal Toy Corp., and was utterly confident that he would make it to the top of his own private Everest...
...steamroller stopped there, however, when Philly muffed three chances to tie the game in the closing seconds. Erving made one of his few mistakes with ten seconds to go, missing an open jumper from the foul line. Free hustled for the rebound, but Walton rejected his shot from the corner...
Hence the regulations. Hence that June day when the Houghton official saw that first pen. He walked over to pick it up, and saw out of the corner of his eye another pen, lying a few feet away. Picking up the second pen, he suddenly became aware that, through some bizarre biological mishap, a single Bic pen had reproduced itself a thousand times, throughout the library's reference room. Pens were stacked in piles on the shelves, magic-markers were falling out of wastebaskets, a bagfull of fine-points was spilled on the floor...
...test one desperate day when, in the dining-room, he wheeled around a corner, tray in hand, only to confront The Most Beautiful Woman in Radcliffe (this is what everyone calls her--her family name has long since been discarded). The shock of being within three feet of The Most Beautiful Woman in Radcliffe was too much for my roommate, and his tray came clattering down, gracefully allowing the day's lunch to take up residence on his penny-loafers...
Finally, my memories of that street-corner are certainly colored by the time when, enroute to a party with a case of beer (bottles, of course), I tripped on the curb and shattered 288 ounces of Budweiser all over Mt. Auburn Street. Unlike my roommate, I did not immediately purchase another case and repeat the motion...