Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treatment by physicians who hold appointments on the Medical School faculty. Officials expect that the present enrollment of 65,000 Boston area residents will increase to between 125,000 and 175,000 in the next five years. By 1982, HCHP should provide Med School faculty members with a sizeable corner of the Boston area market for high-level care. The projected enrollment figures represent five to seven per cent of the area's population...
Actually, no one really knew who had killed the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party as he was being driven to a meeting with party members. Slowing down at a corner to begin a steep climb 18 miles southeast of Beirut, the car was blocked by a Pontiac with an Iraqi license plate. Four men machine-gunned Jumblatt, his driver and his bodyguard; all three died almost immediately. The assassins sped away, crashed their car two miles down the road and hijacked a Fiat...
...rehabilitated Yellow Feather marches on stage waving an American flag, the cast sings, "You've got to hand it to Little Mary Sunshine," and they are right. Unfortunately, the title is not too catchy and Cabot Living Room is an obscure corner in the world of Harvard theater. The Bible claims, "Revenge is mine, thus saith the Lord." For all of us who are faced with a rainy Saturday afternoon choice between "The Wild Kingdom" and old Hollywood re-runs, the South House Drama Society's satire is a divine favor...
...dressed in the civilian style of secret agents. As they proceeded along the dark road, she tumbled off the roadway, intentionally leaping into a paddy field. Before the men regained control of her she slipped her secret document, the application form from the Shanghai Party organization, out of the corner of her waistcoat. As fast as possible, she stuffed it into her mouth, chewed it vigorously, and swallowed. The sensation of paper passing into her system was peculiar to say the least. Yet she knew that she had destroyed all visible evidence of that incriminating affiliation...
...that my listings have to be complete, or, for that matter, incomplete, or, for that matter, unfunny, or, for that matter, anything other than funny. There is really no bona fide outlet for truly creative writing around here, and so I sort of reserve this little niche, this little corner of the sky, this little piece of the proverbial pie, for whatever the hell I, the writer-as-writer (Read: WRITER), want to write. Nobody, including you, has to read this. Nobody jams Hustler magazine down your throat every month, Mr. or Ms. Community Standards. Now I'm getting...