Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, fight back alone. There are those who give up the fight and leave Harvard, thus depriving us of a divergent attitude which would be unsettling and interesting. There are those who are different and still at Harvard, and they can usually be found eating in the corner of the dining halls, ignored by their embarassed classmates...
...High when the test came. Most of the Negro children came in a group, accompanied by adults, and left quietly when told by a National Guardsman that "Governor Faubus has placed this school off limits to Negroes." But little Elizabeth Eckford, 15, stepped alone from a bus at the corner of 14th and Park Streets. In a neat cotton dress, bobby-sox and ballet slippers, she walked straight to the National Guard line on the sidewalk. The Guardsmen raised their rifles, keeping...
...There was nothing overpowering about Milwaukee's aging (36) Southpaw Warren Spahn's pitching when he beat the Chicago Cubs, 8-0, to win his 18th game of the season; he struck out only five men. But he had the same corner-cutting control that has kept him up among the National League's best pitchers for 13 seasons, and the 41st shutout of his career gave him a league record for lefties...
...York for opera; instead, New Yorkers will be coming to Boston." But Impresario Oscar Hammerstein, then staging grand opera at his Manhattan Opera House in successful competition with the Metropolitan, made another kind of prophecy. He noted that the hulking red brick and terra-cotta pile at the corner of Huntington Avenue and Opera Place was next door to the Boston Storage Warehouse and suggested blandly that "perhaps some day the two can be combined...
...hard one and have made our educational system a coddling process." Taking the view that gentlemen of the old schools had more chance to become gentlemen, and schooled, he recalled that his first-grade teacher "opened school with a prayer. She also kept a good limber switch in the corner...