Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Harry Truman safely back & forth to the office wing of the White House, which he will continue to use, Washington police were installing special signal lights at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Jackson Place. When the President crosses Pennsylvania Avenue, a master switch will stop traffic in all directions...
...designated zones, settle all outstanding truce problems, reduce military forces and declare a permanent armistice. The Negeb desert, Bunche thought, would provide a good starting point. According to blueprints produced by a U.N. subcommittee, the Jews would be ordered to quit all of the Negeb (except for a small corner in the north); the Egyptians would abandon their few remaining pockets, keeping only the coastal area and a narrow strip just north of the Egyptian frontier. Beersheba, one of Israel's most treasured war prizes, would return to the Arabs under Egyptian administration. At week...
...gave way at the first impact. Fighting was fierce. The fog was now very thick and mud-colored, so it was hard to tell friend from foe. The police hit hard. When four or five police got a single demonstrator in a corner, they beat him without mercy. The demonstrators' most effective weapons were the paving stones they had ripped up. About 20 police retreated with badly bashed faces...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN RUSH (399 pp.)-Edifed by George W. Corner-Princeton...
People who love crowds are going to be in their element this weekend. Sellouts are the rule all over Boston and Cambridge, as proprietors from Bill Bingham down to the Greek on the corner prepare to welcome 57,000 crazy football fans...