Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan courtroom thinned; the jury trying Alger Hiss for perjury relaxed. After ten days of bear-pit tension, the testimony of ex-Communist-Courier Whittaker Chambers and his wife was finally complete. Hulking, flat-voiced Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy hoisted himself into a sitting position on a corner of the Government table and began a careful job of legal bricklaying-matching the "pumpkin papers" and other secret documents with the originals from which they had been copied...
David Carpenter once a week on a Washington street corner...
...onetime marine in France's navy, had done the best he could, but he was fighting with one hand. In the opening round, the first time he threw a left hook, he had torn the elevator muscle in his left shoulder. From Challenger Jake La Motta's corner, he heard the entreaties of La Motta's handlers above the buzz of 22,183 spectators: " 'At's it, Jackson. 'Atta go, Jackson . . . put the bomb in." Jake (alias Jackson) never put the bomb in. Just before the bell for the tenth round, Cerdan...
...these last days before the race the crews are spending less time on the river and the silence over the Thames is shattered by frequent impromptu quartets. Red Top musicals are more reminiscent of the corner barber shop than of the opera house, but they do break up the pre-race tension. Then too, Burt Haines, Bolles' venerable assistant, has more time to take the boys over at croquet. Charley Morgan, the varsity manager, complains, "Burt plays like that lawn was a billiard table...
...radio producer (Seth Parker; Gang Busters; Mr. District Attorney; We, the People), combs New York City for likely-looking characters. His scouts prowl the Bowery and Broadway, hang around fight arenas and ballparks, wander Brooklyn and Harlem slums. The people they find-including rum-soaked derelicts, strapping longshoremen, street-corner evangelists, wispy old ladies-become the actors in The Black Robe (Wed. 8:30 p.m. E.D.T., NBC-TV), highstrung Phillips Lord's first TV venture...