Word: corners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where hulking Ben Davis, one of the convicted Communist leaders, was defending his seat on the city council. It was the only elective office in the U.S. held by a Communist, and the party poured its resources into the fight. Comrades sent sound trucks crisscrossing the district, harangued street-corner meetings nightly, and Candidate Davis shouted himself out of voice...
...Complete Calm." Within two hours, the tension lifted. This was no April 9 for Bogotá. Well-drilled military police on every street corner made that plain. At 9 p.m. curfew the government announced...
...opening day, visitors slowly circled the room, later clustered in a corner to congratulate the artist, who favored each of them with a slight bow, a miniature smile, and a small, limp hand. The ring which he had once had tattooed on his finger was concealed by a wide gold band, his tattooed watch by one that told the right time. It was not easy to connect the gentle and sedate old Japanese with the Foujita...
...Goldstein broke through the Yale defense again at 5:45 of the fourth period when he charged into a pile in front of the goal and banged the ball across the goal mouth into the far corner...
This was the weekend for reading. Vag ruffled through the reading lists he had placed on the corner of his desk and grinned. Two days of good steady reading and done with it. He took a book from the top of the pile, turned the three-way light switch all the way up, and settled down in his easy chair...