Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irishman named Rinty Monaghan, who trains on goats' milk, became the world's flyweight boxing king. He creamed Jackie Paterson, a Scotsman, in the seventh round and Paterson sagged to the floor. As he was being counted out, Rinty did an enthusiastic jig in his corner, then led the crowd in singing When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. The celebration continued at Rinty's home until a wellwisher, while demonstrating "how I would have handled Paterson," accidentally knocked the new champion cold...
...uncared-for garden, and provides the quietest view in the room. Everywhere else one looks is blazing with color: bright silk cushions, bric-a-brac, copper vases, flowers, fruits, costume jewelry, feathers, and yards of vivid material looped over chairs or hanging ready for his models. In one corner stands a huge aviary which used to be flashing with Milanese pigeons (most of them died during the war). An old-fashioned country telephone perches on a stand in one corner. The walls are thick with paintings. Sketches of Matisse's 15-year-old grandson Jackie form a continuous frieze...
Last week it seemed that "citizens' radios" (walkie-talkies for everybody) were just around the corner. Chairman Wayne Coy announced that one type had been approved by the Federal Communications
...Harvard surroundings astonish almost no one in 1948. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences seems to endure--perhaps in some cases even to enjoy--teaching members of both sexes. Administrative circles have gone so far as to mix females into seating plans instead of blocking them into a corner. In fact, academically speaking, there remains only one prominent sore spot in Harvard-Radcliffe relations: libraries...
...stick to punch Moher. Moher knocked him down with the stick, hammered him. With a riot in the making, Coach Chase refused to continue! the game. It took 26 stitches to close a wound in Abbott's cheek. Said Chase: "If it had been on a street corner, it would have been criminal." In collegiate circles these days, it was just hockey, new style...