Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Corner is two miles from the Atlantic Ocean at York Harbor, now a popular summer resort and the locale of one of the finest beaches on the Maine coast. Charles Plaisted was born in his father's home on nearby Cider Hill and, like him, became a farmer and a Democrat. He has voted in every Presidential election since 1872 (Ulysses S. Grant v. Horace Greeley). He married the girl next door, and they were together for 64 years until she died. Although his nephews now run the 125-acre dairy farm, "Uncle Charlie" insists on doing...
...have lost the confidence of the people. We are the subject of ridicule on every street corner. We are the laughing stock, because we didn't fight. If we endorse that campaign, the party will just evaporate from any position of importance in this country...
...Refunds. The Salvation Army was shaking like a chilled lassie on a windy corner. It had no idea that Costello was "THE Frank Costello," said a spokesman. Would the Army return Costello's $10,000? Well, no. Said Commissioner Donald McMillan: "The Salvation Army has been advised by its counsel that it has no legal right to refuse to accept funds...
...into corps of servants, stained-glass heraldic windows, horses, racing-cars, motorcycles and miniature railroads. His children were so terrified of him that once when his little daughter was prattling innocently about "the fertility of rabbits" she noticed one of her father's blue eyes appear around the corner of his morning Times and fix her with a look so deadly that she nearly fell out of her chair. The War Office regarded Doyle with much the same horror when, as early as 1900, he bombarded them with demands for reforms that seemed absurd to British Blimps: rifles (instead...
Wynn's number one player is Jim Bacon, the man with most match experience. A former Middlesex School player with considerable variety, Bacon's specialty is corner and cross-court shots...