Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land on which the house was built was then a corner of the Shady Hill estate, owned by the family of Charles Eliot Norton, professor of Fine Arts and Literature. The estate is the original site of the Shady Hill School...
Radcliffe's recently acquired property at the corner of Garden and Shepard streets will house extra administrative offices for the government's satellite tracking program, Stewart Stearns, Radcliffe Business Manager, announced yesterday...
Eisenhower's concern with balanced budgets, states rights, moderation, and sound business procedure, does not make his economic policy much more attractive or effective. While poverty may not be just around the corner, neither is immediate prosperity. And the tedious trip to recovery is made more unbearable by an Administration which seems to be particularly insensitive to the condition of the unemployed...
...House of Commons, there were rafter-rattling cheers, and the Right Honorable Member for Woodford, Sir Winston Churchill, walked in through the great oak doors on his first visit to the House in four months. Pale and less cherubic than usual, the old parliamentarian made his way to a corner spot near the Treasury Bench, chatted with members from both sides, voted twice with the government on minor issues. Next day Churchill's chauffeur-driven Humber made a turn on Parliament Square, collided with a bus. Unperturbed, Sir Winston grinned at the crowds, proceeded uninjured...
...plumage was vivid and vulgar-a sport shirt with a palm-leaf motif, sometimes a tie with a bulb-breasted nude. His Stetson sat squarely on top of his head, a cigar grew out of the right corner of his mouth, and he glinted at the world through rimless, hexagonal glasses. Readers of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express could spot him at a glance: he was "the loud American." For the past nine years he has swaggered regularly through the frontpage, one-column panel drawn by one of England's most popular cartoonists: urbane, grandly mustached Osbert Lancaster...