Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) from touch-football games at Hickory Hill, while Bobby has corralled Carol Channing, who warbled her way into the White House with Hello, Lyndon! in 1964. Artists, writers and other intellectuals are also pretty evenly divided between the two. Bobby has a corner on famed athletes. With just the names he has now, he would probably sweep both the World Series and the football Super Bowl-though he might have trouble in the National Basketball playoffs...
Meeting force with force, Duvalier rushed 200 troops into the north, blocked the main road to Cap Haitien, surrounded the airport and personally directed every operation and news release from his corner office in the palace. "We must bomb the enemy systematically," he instructed his commander by phone. Later, Duvalier rang up Washington, where the Haitian ambassador, Arthur Bonhomme, was holding a press conference, and instructed the diplomat to inform the assembled reporters that Papa's troops were "mopping up right...
...temporal lobe of the brain. Another (No. 2) entered below the left eye and came to rest between the carotid artery and the jugular vein. One centimeter's deviation in almost any direction and this bullet could have caused fatal hemorrhaging. A third slug burrowed from the corner of the right eye into the jawbone. The fourth traveled from a point under the right nostril into the hard palate. The fifth bullet went through the roof of Williams' mouth, then to the base of his skull, coming to a halt beyond the pituitary...
BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL, an amazing complex of buildings in a dreary corner of the South End, was never really planned. Like the city it serves, "City" grew haphazardly and in quirks through the last years of the 19th century and through the first third of this century. The jumble of buildings, none of them new, each seemingly done in a different architectural mode without concern for the total environment, and all of them connected by a weird system of tunnels, reflects the different plans that different generations have proposed to fulfill the hospital's prime purpose: the service...
...society, George Gordon Lord Byron seems less of a satyr than a swinger; so a group of Byron buffs led by Derek Parker, editor of the Poetry Review, and Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis have petitioned that he receive his proper niche in the abbey's Poets' Corner. Their word was good enough for the Very Rev. Eric Abbott, present Dean of Westminster, who ordered that an appropriate plaque be placed in Poets' Corner next April, on the 145th anniversary of Byron's death...