Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When Vicky celebrates with friends, she stays sober. "My sister, my girlfriend, and I went out," she remembered. "We were of age to drink, but we just watched our other friends drink. Some girls got so drunk, they had to sit in the corner. The rest of us had Coke. Or you know what I drink?"--Vicky flashed her trademark grin--"I drink pina colalda, but without the alcohol," she said. "And I watch them sit in the corner and I dance and dance and dance." Now she stays at home with Katerina. "We're going to be home this...
...going to New Jersey, we're going to New Jersey." Their words fall slightly out-of-sync. They turn and begin jumping on their seats. They point at pastry and scream "New Jersey! New Jersey!" The woman eating it concentrates hard on finishing. As we turn the corner onto Mt. Auburn Street, one of the girls gets distracted by the Lowell House bell tower. "Who do they keep there?" she asks. "A princess," replies her young companion. The sight of a pigeon interrupts their fairy-tale musings. "Pigeon poop! Pigeon poop!" they sing...
...right corner of Dillon Field House sits the office of the Thomas Stephenson Family Coach for Football Tim Murphy. The size of the office complex rivals that of any other occupant of an endowed chair at the University, with a large lobby and waiting area decorated with choice artwork, generous plaques and panoramic photography of Harvard football. Nearly every piece on the four walls of the lobby is related to the Harvard-Yale game; a painting of a Harvard receiver pulling down a pass against a Yale defender; a faded black-and-white photographer's rendering of the 1911 Harvard...
...disaster was looming right around the corner. Linden struggled mightily in 1998 while leading the team to a 4-6 (3-4 Ivy) record, and his classmate Brad Wilford emerged mid-season as a surprisingly viable contender for Linden's starting spot...
...arrive with a duffel bag and he'd just sort of live out of it as he wore his clothes, and they'd just sort of end up in the corner," Deeter says. "There were a lot of arrogant prepsters there and George didn't really follow along...