Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offices somber-faced staffers tiptoed across the squares of linoleum tile, whispered out their business as if some member of the official family were seriously ill. There was no laughter; tension ran higher than at any time since Dwight Eisenhower's heart attack. In the spacious, green-carpeted corner office, only 30 paces from the President's own, worked Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, 59, briskly shuffling papers, softly snapping monosyllabic orders as he had since the day that he became Dwight Eisenhower's chief of staff in January...
...Hampshire) never became a major factor in the industry, but it gave him the funds to begin major investments in real estate in mid-Depression. One day he heard that Western Union wanted to build on a choice block near the financial district, so he bought a corner building as a toe hold, quietly worked out a deal with Western Union to pick up the rest of the property on percentage. His profit...
...tribute from teacher: "A natural surfer." Back at his pine-shaded palace in Teheran, the Shah had earlier discussed his divorce from Princess Soraya, a water-ski student on her recent Bermuda trip, with a TIME correspondent: "It's the sort of tragedy that always waits around the corner for a man who puts his public life first. We were so close. I tried to appoint a crown prince, but everybody wanted somebody in the direct line. We had several meetings with our elder statesmen. They appealed to my sense of duty and patriotism. This is always my weak...
Dodgers out of town if they lost the referendum. O'Malley's enemies shouted from every street corner and TV set that he was a vicious land pirate bent on picking up real estate, not on bringing baseball to the West...
...Large Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory, will argue that "Space Travel Is Just Around the Corner." In Emerson Hall D, J.N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, John H. Finley, Jr., Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, and Perry G.E. Miller, professor of American Literature, will defend the place of "Humanities in the Age of Science...