Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Vag found him, he was sitting at a corner table, staring at a glass of iced tea. "Did you ever wonder about Eskimos?" he asked, after Vag had pulled up a chair. "What I mean is, how they ever stand such a boring life...
...Szena Square only a rare pockmark remains. On the corner where the fighting was most savage, an old woman stands, basket in arm, selling hens. On the surface normalcy has returned. Grass and flowers now surround the tree where an AVH (secret police) colonel once hung. Gone from the parks and squares are the temporary graves of the Freedom Fighters. The Russians have made a tremendous effort to dress up the country. As a result, Hungary has been provided with the highest standard of living behind the Iron Curtain-the well-traveled say Budapest lives better than Moscow itself. Food...
...decline of quality in the Herald Tribune, and his hopes for a return to its "old heritage." ¶ A well-pruned letters column in a freshened format that substitutes breeze for wind. ¶ "They Say" an occasional skimming of notable quotes in the news. ¶ "Curmudgeon's Corner" a space to be periodically opened to outraged or outrageous comment...
...gang warfare. Shakespeare's High-Renaissance ardors and angers do not translate into the barbarism of West Side Story any more than did Greek-tragedy incests and betrayals into the primitivism of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. Fire-escape balcony scenes and corner-drugstore Friar Lawrences are not only distracting but tinged with bathos. Similarly, Composer Bernstein does better with his harsh, tingling music for the dancers than with his lyrical duets for the lovers, and Arthur Laurents' libretto catches rasping, inarticulate hate better than yearning, inarticulate love. When it turns away from what...
...could coax more oil out of the Appalachian basin where U.S. oilmen brought in their first wells almost a century ago. The companies gambled on three wells-and got three dry holes. With the fourth, on a 9,000-acre lease (annual rental: 25? an acre) in the northeast corner of the state, he finally hit the jackpot. Benedum figures the well should produce at least 1,000 bbl. daily on a long-term basis. Within hours of the strike nine companies were in the area snapping up land, and lease prices skyrocketed to $83 an acre. Benedum...