Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both Presidents Truman and Eisenhower have made clear, cannot safely end H-bomb tests until the entire system of atomic-weapons production is placed under a workable mutual-inspection system. And although he has a few scientists in his corner, Stevenson is boldly down-facing the experts when he questions the "sense" of further hydrogen development. Even now, the U.S. and Russia are engaged in a desperate race for an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying a hydrogen payload. For the U.S. to test the missile package without continuing work on its thermonuclear warhead would give the Soviets a disastrous...
Blitzing New Jersey, New Hampshire and New York last week in an assault on G.O.P. Eastern strongholds, Estes Kefauver ignored noisy Eisenhower enthusiasts among his street-corner crowds and an Oklahoma-born cold that reduced his drawling dramatics to a-hoarse whisper. But the vice-presidential nominee and aides were hard put to ignore what they considered a pointed dig: the absence of New York Democratic bigwigs from the Syracuse-Rochester-Buffalo area when Kefauver made a one-day stand in upper New York state...
...their key race for the U.S. Senate, Ohio's Democratic Governor Frank Lausche had blocked all the plunging attempts of Republican Incumbent George Bender to corner him for face-to-face de bate (TIME, Oct. 8). But last week Lausche arrived to make a "nonpolitical" speech to a group of Negro businessmen in Columbus-only to discover that George Bender was already on hand with the political question that had been puzzling Ohioans for months...
...privy purse ($520,000) and an annual salary of $13,000, the maharaja would be able to throw no more parties like this. All through the elaborate, ten-day ceremony that marked the twilight of his greatness, farmers and shopkeepers by the thousand poured into the city from every corner of his old realm, standing in patient lines to glimpse his stables of thoroughbreds, his gold-and-silver coaches, the Daimlers, Cadillacs and Rolls-Royces in his garages. At the great final display in his red-carpeted durbar hall, some 30,000 of them gathered before the shedlike structure...
...year job, which he plans to start early next year, Tallamy will be responsible for one of the most ambitious single public-works projects in history-41,000 miles of superhighways as well as hundreds of miles of spur and connecting roads stretching into every corner of the U.S. Says Highway Administrator Tallamy: "The highway program will not only bring more rapid and safer transportation, but will also lead to a decentralization of industry. All along the new highway system new industries will spring...