Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Hurricane Audrey roared up toward the Gulf Coast last summer (TIME, July 8), the only physician in the marshland town of Cameron (pop. 3,000), at the southwestern corner of Louisiana, was Cecil William Clark, 33, who ran a community medical center with a twelve-bed hospital. Dr. Clark was confident that his new brick house would ride out the storm, but he was worried about the frame clinic building (with only a brick veneer) and its eight bedfast patients. Leaving their three youngest children at home with a maid, Dr. Clark and his wife Sybil (a nurse-anesthetist...
Then Lyle Guttu turned in the best shot of the night, a hard drill in the lower left-hand corner. B.C. star goalie Al Pitts never had a chance on it. Two minutes later at 15:56 sophomore Gillie scored his first varsity tally, a really heads-up shot on a rebound from defenseman Dan Ullyot...
...Roosevelt's incredible energy marked him off from the rest of his fellows, his aristocratic tendencies served to widen the gulf. He took private rooms at No. 16 Winthrop Street, a house which stood at the northeast corner of the present IAB. He did this for two reasons--his health was still not perfect, and only damp first-floor rooms were available in the Yard; and he liked seclusion for working on his natural history specimens and his historical writing. Even though friends sought to bring him into student society, he retained his private rooms throughout his college years...
...glanced ruefully into the wire basket. "No, people don't notice one way or another, I guess. Now take some of these guys. The Salvation Army pays them seventy-five, eighty cents an hour and if it rains they'll go hand around a street corner instead of setting up. It don't pay. Me, I'm doing this for nothing, understand. My sister, she goes down to the Salvation Army a lot and sometimes she asks me to help out. You know how it is. So I don't mind--days like this you can't get nobody...
Yesterday New York awoke. Steam-heat husbands emerged from suburban incubators and made their careful ways to the street-corner. There were no subways. Court orders and oratory notwithstanding, the trainmen stayed home on Monday...