Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fenders of Justice. In Medina, Ohio. Truck Driver Charles Reed rounded a corner, collided with a deputy sheriff's parked car, which collided with a judge's car, which collided with a highway patrol car, but went scot-free because the sheriff's car was illegally parked too near the intersection...
...Corner." But he was soon back again from the glowing legend to distasteful politics-a perfunctory huddle with Kansas' able Gubernatorial Candidate Clyde Reed Jr. ("I'm in his corner." said Ike. "Is that clear enough?"), who has high hopes of unseating wily Democratic Governor George Docking; a fast flight on to Denver, Mamie's home town, where the Eisenhowers' arrival got fouled up by a wretched little scene at the airport. There Ike was greeted and all but engulfed before the photographers by Colorado's Governor Stephen McNichols, another of the Eisenhower...
...Washington, Idaho, Colorado and Kansas. They have produced floods of new registrations; most of it is probably Democratic; in California, only one of each four of 457,000 new voters registered Republican. But angry questions at political rallies, letters to editors, earnest debate at many a saloon and street corner indicate that even union rank-and-filers-not to mention farmers and white-collar workers-are seriously disturbed over Big Labor's evident excesses...
...handy CRIMSON that the Establishment, since my remorseless withdrawal from the celestial confines, continues with undiminished zeal in its search for the truth that we all seek. I can only express (from my dark corner) my gratitude for its paternal indulgence of its wayward sons. I refer, of course, to a recent CRIMSON story reporting what our Housemasters think of those sorry seniors who shut out from their lives the golden world of the Houses and who slunk into the drafty and frosty holes that are the private dwellings of Cambridge...
...corner raged undefeated retired Heavyweight Champ (1926-28) Gene Tunney, ably seconded by Polly, his socialite wife of 30 years. His opponent: burly Yugoslav Dictator Tito, a canny pro at the political bob-and-weave. Occasion of the scrap: Tunney's second honeymoon, which the ex-champ, now a capitalist and director of many corporations, wanted to spend on the wooded Adriatic isle of Brioni, location of Tito's many-splendored summer place. "Thirty years ago," said Gene, "my wife and I spent most of our honeymoon on Brioni...