Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan described the games from a room in Des Moines. An accomplice with a wire set hooked up to Wrigley Field handed him slips of paper after each pitch: "double," "strike, inside corner," "foul ball". It was Reagan's job--and particle of talent--to fill in the rest. Then, later that night, listeners tuned into Reagan's analysis of the day's events--events he had created in his own mind...
...before the corporate takeover or the bedroom marathon. But Naipaul manages to give each isolated incident the ! inevitability and gravity of history. The impression is not that so little happens in ten years but that a series of small upheavals so shake a tiny, isolated corner of the world. Having found, after some 40 years of struggle, his ideal landscape, Naipaul must watch its deterioration and decline. He can, within reason, be philosophical about this process, acknowledging that his sense of loss is not unique: "Yet I also knew that what had caused me delight, when I first came...
With the Crimson ahead, 4-0, Harvard's number one Darius Pandole took center court. Throughout the match, Pandole hit some fine reverse corner shots and placed his drop shots where he wanted, smashing the Elis' Thomas Clayton in three straight games, 15-7, 15-10, 15-10 to clinch the Crimson's 11th win of the season...
...chairman prefers the stance of the battle-weary pol when reporters corner him to talk about the pending plan to revamp the College's disciplinary system. Although the plan bears little resemblance to the one the council outlined last year, Eisert painstakingly explains that it is the best students can hope for right now. Students, Eisert continues, must put aside futile confrontation and do what they can to make the College a little better when they leave it than when they entered...
...spent days roaming the streets of Moscow trying to formulate some kind of plan. For two days straight I sat at a corner table and ran up a tab at Boris' House of Borscht. Finally, delirious from lack of sleep and too much beet soup, I was struck by an odd yet wonderful idea: to manipulate the minds of the TV viewing public by means of devious politically-oriented programming...