Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Gavrilo Princip had crossed the quay and regained his courage. The first car turned the corner right in front of him. The Archduke's car started to turn also. General Potiorek called: "That's the wrong way. Drive straight down the Appel Quay." The driver put on the brakes. The car came to a full stop in front of Princip...
...that walked by himself when he was not clawing the Government for its haste to appease and its tardiness to arm. Like the sly puss in Kipling's Just So Stories, he has had to sit beyond the cozy Government hearth, destined never to warm a Cabinet corner unless somebody spoke him a kind word. Presumably because Winston Churchill is not only the Conservative Party's best brain but its most unpredictable personality, safe & sane Conservatives withheld their kind words until last week. Sly Puss Winston Churchill purred gratefully when he heard them...
Competing with Amos 'n' Andy on the radio is like taking on Joe Louis. CBS tried it for eleven years, finally coaxed the pair over to its own corner of the air, last April. Since then that 15-minute early evening spot has been NBC's headache...
Colburn's Jewelry Store, which recently moved to the corner of Plympton Street and Massachusetts Avenue, was looted early this morning when thieves shattered a large window and removed an undermined amount of jewelry...
...recession was bottoming-the stockmarket was indigo blue. At 10 a. m. on June 20, something happened. The market turned in its tracks and began to climb. Blue turned to rose color. For two weeks stocks climbed spectacularly. So far as the market was concerned the corner had been turned. Last week something resembling the June turn of a year ago, but on a much smaller scale, took place in the market. Brokers talked jubilantly of another corner being turned...