Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amen Corner. In Johnson City, N.Y., cops broke up a bustling little business for Peter Sadowitz, who was caught operating an unlicensed bar in the social room of a local church...
Transatlantic Drivel. The reaction could scarcely have been worse. London's usually sober Economist blew its top. It growled: "American opinion should be warned that over here, in Great Britain, one has the feeling of being driven into a corner by a complex of American actions and insistencies which, in combination, are quite intolerable." Then it snapped: "Not many people in this country believe the Communist thesis that it is the deliberate and conscious aim of American policy to ruin Britain and everything that Britain stands for in the world. But the evidence can certainly be read that...
...they had been using the present system since 1924, when FTC outlawed the "Pittsburgh plus" system, which made Pittsburgh the basing point for the whole country. They suspected aloud that all the sudden hollering was just a political maneuver to take housewives' minds off high prices at the corner grocery...
...away, and although he felt that he ought to sound scornful, he couldn't help letting a twinge of nostalgia come in. It wasn't quite the same in the summer, without the Annex. "Pretty good game today, wasn't it?" he ventured. "Sloppy," she replied out of the corner of her mouth. "Well, that starting pitcher just had a bad day," he said bravely. "Bad day! Why that pantywaist couldn't hit the broad side of I wouldn't like to say what." "Not Radcliffe," Vag breathed to himself. "What did you say?" asked the girl. "Oh, I just...
...Street of the Prophets. Further along, at 2:10 p.m., the radio in Car 755P sounded. The control room ordered: "Investigate Labor Department building." A minute or so later the car stopped near the building at the corner of the Street of the Prophets. As Middleton, carrying his old-style, drum-fed Tommy gun, climbed out, an excited clerk told him that at 2:10, several men carrying a large tin box had entered the building. They said it was a time bomb and would explode in 20 minutes; then they left...