Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the eleventh round, Ali took stock. "Am I winning?" he asked his seconds. Back came the reply: "You're way ahead." And Trainer Angelo Dundee added, "Just sock him-sock him!" In Spinks' corner, one of his handlers frantically urged: "You've got to fight your fight. You're fighting his fight...
...game winner came at 6:10 of the first overtime period. Columbia playmaker, Shahin Shayan (from Tehran, Iran), took the ball deep in the Crimson zone and crossed it from the left corner over the crease...
...Lion's Shayan set up Steve Charles five minutes later for a 30-ft. bullet to the upper right corner of the net. But these outbursts were sandwiched between periods of Harvard domination...
...minute later, Harvard had a chance with a corner kick, but it was headed away and the Engineers broke up field for one more goal against a thoroughly humiliated Crimson. Adding insult to injury, Michael Raphael popped in the third goal with 7 seconds left in the game...
...cops found no one in the house. The MOVE members had hidden themselves in a corner of the basement. O'Neil then ordered a crane to begin demolishing the house as warnings were shouted over a police loudspeaker for MOVE to surrender. More water was poured into the basement. Trained police sharpshooters aimed at the house. Suddenly, someone fired a shot and the battle began. Policemen and firemen fell to the ground--some wounded, some trying to avoid bullets, one dead. After minutes of gunfire, the bedlam suddenly ceased, MOVE surrendered. But the toll was heavy: one police officer dead...