Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle of the Towers. Italy has countless church towers. Today it also has 8,635 carefully counted Communist Party sections, which break down into 34,540 cells that probe into every corner of the land (see box). The methods are simple. Said a Communist organizer in a village near Milan last week: "Communists freed this village. It wasn't the Socialists or the priests. I am a Communist." They rely on Good Works: last fortnight, a jammed train carried 200 children from starving Naples north to Emilia; there, on Communist farms, under special care of Rita Togliatti...
...memorial towers above the waterfront. Half a block away is the old Neptune Tavern (known from Singapore to the Cape of Good Hope for its "strong ale and pea soup"); nearby are other noted grog shops such as Joe Beef's and Liverpool House. Just around the corner there is a sailor's club where last season an average of 300 sailors a night were quartered...
Before Benny's fight with Richie Mitchell, the referee explained the then-new rule that after scoring a knockdown, a boxer must go to a neutral corner. Benny suddenly registered perplexity. "Let me get,this straight," he said. "As I understand it, every time I knock him down I'm to go to a neutral corner." Mitchell looked nervous. Benny knocked him out in the sixth round...
...attempt to come closer to the original architects' design than the final pre-war agglomeration of metalwork, corner pinnacles, small dormer windows above the clock faces, and various gewgaws which were added in 1897 will probably not go back on the tower...
Magritte is 48, married, and has a pet Pomeranian, "Jacacki." He is a dapper dresser, paints on a time-clock daily schedule in a corner of his small, commonplace living room. Magritte considers Dali an excellent businessman ("he is rich") but has intense scorn for fellow Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux, who paints luscious nudes picking roses in classic landscapes, with now & then a streetcar lurking about in the background (TIME, Dec. 30). Painter Delvaux, Magritte thinks, "has exploited surrealism as he would have exploited pork-butchery...