Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...event of a major armed clash," said Zhukov, "atomic weapons will inevitably be used as the principal means of offense ... At present there is no corner in the world where an aggressor might seek cover. The Soviet air force is capable of delivering crushing blows against any adversary, wherever he might be or hide...
...Arab state which has been most faithfully in Nasser's corner, and has gone perhaps even further than Egypt to accept Russian help and direction, is Syria. For about a year 31-year-old Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, Nasser-admiring chief of Syria's military intelligence service, has been next thing to king of the beasts in the Syrian political jungle. Last week, angered by his increasing inroads on their hunting preserves, and perhaps even a little disturbed by Russian influence, some of the older inhabitants of the jungle tried to run Serraj...
...this desperate corner, Banker Verrier proposes austere terms. He wants to 1) keep wages frozen but abolish most price controls, 2) remove all subsidies, in particular the $100 million annual handout to the railroads, and 3) import capital goods freely but cut imports of consumer goods. Otherwise, he warns, the government will be forced to grind out enough printing-press money to make ends meet...
Authentic Peace. "At this delicate hour . . ." said the Pope, "it is comforting to note the reliance placed by your illustrious President and generous people, as well as by those in every corner of the globe who share your hopes and fears, on the simple, informal, unfeigned expression of good will, as a key instrument for the settlement of international disputes . . . Authentic peace is always a work of justice; and justice can be little more than hollow mockery without reverence for the laws...
...front of flat No. 15A, and behind it a disheveled stagehand snoozed. Two workmen sipped tea on the set of the King and Queen's dressing room, while in the orchestra area the King and Queen (Howard Lindsay and Dorothy Stickney) munched sandwiches. On the far corner of the stage, Director Ralph (Requiem for a Heavyweight) Nelson went to his knees and with his hands simulated a TV camera. "Come ahead on the stroke of one," he instructed Julie Andrews, cast as TV's Cinderella. "Now Cinderella heads right out of the camera...