Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High-class corner-cutting in the issue of complimentary tickets, plus a casual attitude toward campus jobs and off-campus activities for athletes cost the University of California...
...Kefauver has his own kind of advantage. In his corner are Miami Lawyer Henry Sinclair, a shrewd but small-bore politician, and a crew of enthusiastic amateurs who have already stolen at least one march on Adlai's pros: they organized Dade County (Miami) down to the block-captain level while the Stevensonites marked time. In a close race Dade County, which casts more than 20% of Florida's vote (and which Kefauver carried nicely against Georgia's Senator Richard Russell in 1952), could make the difference...
Included in the plans for restoration are a new railing, with a weather vane at each corner, around the now barren top of the building; dormers over the clocks; various pinnacles down the side of the building; and copper sheathing for those portions which are covered by asphalt tile at the present time...
...move from his front-row seat at a news conference. Drieske was wearing a white shirt, the man explained, and a colored one would look better. Even when the reporters get their own conference, they can feel the TV sting. After Stevenson's Minnesota defeat, reporters squeezed into corner waiting for TV to finish shooting his prepared statement. As they started to question Stevenson, the TV crew made so much noise packing to leave that tart-tongued Columnist Doris Fleeson finally cried: "If the second-class citizens could have some quiet, please...
...years have passed since the Supreme Court abolished segregated schools, a bewildering two years which have found the South covered like a battleground; murderers of Negroes acquitted; Negroes severed from their jobs, liberal whites threatened with ostracism, and violence sometimes just around the corner. Despite the forth-coming election of Herman Talmadge in Georgia and the loudly proclaimed growth of the Citizens Councils, however, the process of integration in public schools is, and will continue to be, one of progress, conditioned only be experience and circumstance...