Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nerve center for the Summer School's whole extra-curricular program is Grays Hall 1-2, near the southwestern corner of the Yard. From these rooms some 700 messages each day are carried by foot to dormitory rooms throughout the Yard; in these rooms, attractively outfitted with modern furniture, including television sets, students may receive guests from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week; and at desks in these rooms sit Mrs. Clouser and Miss Jaeger, who have all sorts of information about such things as nearby beaches, weekend carpools, and laundry service (basement, middle entry of Grays...
...brow, his breast, his colleagues' arms, while demanding one take after another. His problem with Fella was simplified by the fact that the nearly continual music supplied almost all the required atmosphere, from the rowdy, Italianate folk-type songs to the entr'acte hit, Standing on the Corner, to the show's one deeply felt song, Warm All Over. Even so, there was a moment when he feared it was beginning to sound pat as a TV program, so he halted for a playback, to get everything in playing order again. The Lady recording, on the other...
Halfway around the world in Mexico, another of humanity's sorrows was turning to promise. Huddled into a corner of Nayarit state, the squalid hamlet of Tecuala had for years had contact with the outside world only through a dirt mule track. But in 1951 an all-weather road pushed into Tecuala, and the town got a small, 600-kw. generator. Within weeks, the power plant put new life into Tecuala. A modern street-lighting system was installed, a water-pumping system modernized; Tecuala's hospital got refrigerators, fluorescent lighting, a fluoroscope. In short order, the town added...
...Princess Sunday eviscerating a buffalo: "She looked so adorable, with blood smeared over her face . . . She sliced liver off and he plopped it into his mouth, a piece as large as one of his hands, and he chewed and gulped and choked, with liver juices bursting out of the corner of his mouth, his eyes winking at her contentedly...
...Last week Jesuit Boschi danced out of his corner with a long article citing authorities from St. Thomas to Joe Louis, and quoting past Osservatore comments against the prize ring: " Boxing makes a beast of man . . . the most brutal sport ever conceived . . . adoration of brute strength, of the fist which can pulverize the brain." Then he called on the Pope himself to referee. Though the decision may be several centuries in coming, it looked, from the newspapers' letters columns, as if all Europe were taking sides...