Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening voices" and of men who act tough, talk fast, sing scat. Here Abeba, nicknamed the "Piano Girl" for the black and shiny spinet that her ambitious mother buys her, grows up to the accompaniment of Mozart and Mendelssohn. "We looking for you to make it big," her street-corner admirers tell...
...latest offer. He charges that they have been under pressure all along to favor the Aga Khan's bid, which was well below what a public auction might have realized. The prince got some first-class mares, Murty says, but still was not satisfied. "He wanted to corner the market on the Boussac mares." The Aga Khan's reponse: "I don't see why I should be heaped with insults just because Murty took a bad business risk." Had Murty "made a more reasonable bid in the beginning, none of this would have happened...
...sooner had Wenner taken over at Look on Tuesday than he barricaded himself in a corner office and had a secretary summon editorial staff members one by one. Within hours he had fired 19 of 34, plus the summoning secretary. Over the next few days, nearly 80 full-time and part-time staffers on the business side were dismissed by Wenner aides. Stunned victims, who received one or two weeks of severance pay, were calling it the "Jonestown Roll Call" and the "French Terror." Said Kevin Buckley, 38, sacked as a senior editor: "There were several...
Around the corner of the boathouse, on the edge of the dock and in the warm cheers of the Eli-infested multitudes, the massive Yale eight was gathered, Worcester Bowl held high, as photographers flashed cameras and reporters fired questions. Jubilation filled the deep blue ecstasy of the Bulldog reverie, and champagne quenched New Haven thrists where it had once satiated Cambridge appetites...
...really pleased with this season's final results because it clearly demonstrates that women's lacrosse has turned the corner and is on the upswing in New England," she added...