Word: corneres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble lies just around the corner. When the 165,000 strikers went out on Dec. 6, most commercial customers had three-month stockpiles of coal, which they thought would be ample. Now the utilities and the industries that are dependent on coal are running low in Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee and Pennsylvania. Other states that face imminent shortages are Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Michigan. These states require at least 60,000 megawatts of power constantly, and to get it, they burn 3 million tons of coal each week. Even if the strike were to end immediately, it would take...
...woman (well played by Jacques Serres and Brigitte Fossey) fall in love, but refuse to marry or even move in together for fear that surrender of independence will distort their personalities and spoil the pleasant relationship they already enjoy. All over the lovely corner of Provence that they share with the native-born peasantry and Parisians escaping city life, similar failures of connection are taking place. A man on the verge of old age makes a fool of himself by pursuing a sometime trapeze artist who slept with him once, but now rejects him with comical callousness. It seems that...
Then, just as he had so many times before, Ali tried to take command in the middle rounds, and for a time the old magic blinked on. In the champion's corner, Trainer Angelo Dundee had noticed that Spinks' early bobbing and weaving had degenerated into an amateur's dangerously upright stance as the young challenger appeared to tire. "This is it," Dundee told Ali before the 10th round. "He's ready to fall. This round, champ, this round. Go get him! Hit him! Take...
...talents for promotion in 1964, when he was matched for the title with Champion Sonny Liston, a great, seemingly invincible giant of a man. Clay called Listen an "ugly old bear" and pranced around carrying a bear trap to the delight of the photographers. Budini Brown, Clay's corner man and cheerleader, gave his fighter the perfect line: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." That is precisely what he did. Cassius attacked, disappeared on those marvelously fast feet, attacked again, disappeared again, until the bear was beaten, helpless in his corner...
Columbia jumped out to a 16-5 lead when Cotner dropped a corner jumper. Jeff Combs, who shot four-for-four in the half, had swished a 20-footer to give the Lions a 12-2 edge...