Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calvin Coolidge, a kindred soul, might have called Dutra a "tight spitter." Brazil's President speaks, almost grudgingly, out of the corner of his mouth; he has no small talk. Officers of his staff once maneuvered him into a car with a colonel who was his runner-up for the title of the army's most taciturn officer, and asked the chauffeur to keep track of the conversation. Not a word passed between them on the drive from Rio's Catete Palace to Santos Dumont airport. As the car drove through the airport gate, the colonel muttered...
Last week, Fighter Foster got his second big chance; 14,193 fans turned out to see him take on blond Charlie Fusari at the Garden. The fight crowd was not yet wise to Vince Foster; he was a 5-6 favorite. At the bell, he bounced out of his corner, landed a couple of hard body punches. Then Fusari saw an opening. He threw a solid right to the chin. Vince Foster went down with a crash and took a count of two. He got up, ran into more long, looping rights, was knocked down twice more. The referee stopped...
...place. When Warbis junior and his mother went to see the show, the young artist had a chance to defend his own painting, but he had nothing to say for publication. He simply grinned at the flabbergasted gallerygoers. Once he went off and stood on his head in a corner. Modern Artist Warbis was just seven, had painted Skegness...
...thundering book called Universities: American, English, German, learned Abraham Flexner, then director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N J., roundly damned U.S. colleges. With all their "wretched claptrap" of vocationalism, he held, "they resemble the modern drugstore in which the pharmacy has been pushed in the corner by soda fountains." Last week, at 82, Educator Flexner announced a modified opinion: "There must have been changes in educational methods." His reason for thinking so: for two years he had quietly been taking courses in English literature and the fine arts at Columbia. He had, he admitted, learned...
...fine June morning, wrote Shirley Jackson, the whole village began to gather. The children, their pockets stuffed with stones, came first, and three of the boys built a pile of stones in a corner of the square. Then came the men, talking of taxes, crops, the weather. The women, wearing house dresses and sweaters, came last...