Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From somewhere in the Bel Air mansion overlooking Hollywood, the butler appears with four squirming Yorkshire terriers and one beribboned miniature French poodle. Off in a corner, a burly, bald man toys with a tape recorder. "How do you parse champagne?" he asks suddenly. "How do you imprison it on a page...
...lithe, well-muscled young man took a pass in the corner of the court and whirled for a jump shot. A Detroit Pistons defender bumped him heavily with his hip. Tipped sideways in midair, Bob Pettit shot anyway. The ball swished cleanly through the hoop, and the St. Louis Hawks went on to a 104-100 victory. In the stands at Detroit's Olympia Stadium, a basketball-wise visitor, the Minneapolis Lakers' Coach John Kundla, shook his head in admiration. "I've been in this league twelve years," he said, "and I coached George Mikan...
...from the opening faceoff. Left-wing John Schley fought for the puck along the boards and passed across to center ice, where defenseman Bruce Smith fired Yale's first shot. As Pratt seemed distracted by action along the boards, the 40-foot waist-high blast whistled into the right corner for a goal...
Even before the announcement could be made, the Elis were back in Harvard ice, and when Smith's second shot from exactly the same spot caught the same corner 23 seconds later, the turtle-shaped roof nearly blew off. With a 2-0 score after only 48 seconds, nearly everyone had visions of a Yale rout...
...Elis went ahead again at 1:17 of the second period, again on a 40-foot drive by Smith from center ice nicked into the right corner by Ed McGonagle...