Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young married woman, she started going to Las Vegas and the poker tables at Gardena, Calif. "All of a sudden, it wasn't the money anymore," she says. "It was the action, the high." On one occasion, she told her young son to wait on a street corner after school, and she would pick him up at 2:30 p.m. for a dental appointment. She went to Gardena instead, and her husband found the boy at 6 p.m., still waiting. On another day, she locked her house and went to Gardena, figuring she would be , back in time...
Another explanation -- that the problems extend beyond engineering and involve crew training -- came from an unexpected corner. In the current issue of the Soviet publication Smena, which went to press well before the Echo II accident, a Captain V. Ovchinnikov criticized in the letters column the training of submarine crews: "It will probably surprise you if I say that the nuclear installations on our submarines are operated by people who are not sufficiently trained, and some of them not trained at all. But we still set sail. The operators know and can do only 30% to 50% of what they...
...visitor, it was just another dry run for doomsday. A captain and a first lieutenant of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces simultaneously turned two keys that would, in wartime, send hurtling toward the U.S. an SS-19 ballistic missile with six independently targeted thermonuclear warheads. Watching from a corner of the cramped underground control center was a tall, droll Yankee naval officer who describes himself as a "country boy from Oklahoma": Admiral William J. Crowe, 64, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking American military official ever to visit the U.S.S.R...
...starts calmly enough, as if the people on Lee's Stuyvesant Avenue are the cheerful graduating class of Sesame Street. Da Mayor (Ossie Davis) spreads inebriated wisdom, Uncle Remus-style. Sal (Danny Aiello), the Italian American who runs the corner pizzeria, brags that the locals "grew up on my food." His delivery boy, Mookie (Lee), doles out advice while dodging duties to his girlfriend and their child. Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn) keeps the block pulsing to the rap song, Fight the Power, that bleats from his boom box. By day's end, though, the neighborhood has erupted. Sal and Raheem...
...whores' phone numbers?" Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight would like to know. But he is an excitable character. "They run odds and point spreads on all the games. Is betting on basketball, football or baseball less illegal than prostitution?" It is, judging from the easy patter heard at every corner of sports. Make that every corner of society...