Word: corners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gunfight. When the party reached the tiny, treeless Plaza San Martin, dominated by an equestrian statue of the Argentine hero, two military policemen rounded the corner. A shot was fired. More soldiers raced up, more bullets flew. Echandia and some of his followers dropped to the ground; others scrambled behind the statue. After five minutes, an army officer pulled up in a car and stopped the shooting...
Pianist Tatum sat at a corner table, his customary bottle of beer before him, and admitted he was tired of the grind of nightclub shows, sometimes thinks of retiring to his home in California with his wife and two Doberman pinschers. But as the intermission pianist swung into a chorus of Basin Street, he turned his head attentively. "He's got some good ideas," he said. "You can't create everything. You hafta listen to the other fella." His strong fingers flexed in an imaginary run. "I'm always tryin' new ideas. No matter...
Brunner does not believe that a truly Christian civilization is just around the corner, but he is not pessimistic: "The terrible perspectives which are placed before us ... have opened the eyes of many of our contemporaries to ... the importance of the Christian tradition. It is not only the physicists and technicians, terrified by their latest results, who . . . are looking out for a new spiritual basis of life, but also the jurists, the sociologists, the psychologists, and . . . the artists and poets. The lowest point of secularization seems to be behind...
...corner of his 286-acre farm, Joe joined a crowd of several hundred oil scouts, brokers, geologists and gawking neighbors around the tin-hatted crew working the rig on a 128-ft. oil derrick. As Joe and they watched, there was a cough and a sputter; then a stream of oil shot out 30 ft. and poured into the mud sump pit. Joe York rubbed his hands in the oil, smelled it and smiled. "I guess I won't have to go back to milking those Jersey cows," he said. The oil scouts took but one look...
Post tells of the time Lowell was wheeling around a corner on the left side of the road, had a head-on collision, and was forced to make a "gentleman's agreement" with the Registrar of Motor Vehicles never to do his own driving again, because "it wasn't fitting for a Harvard President to have his license taken away...