Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ullyot opened the scoring with a 15-foot shot into the lower left corner at 5:05 of the first period, as he skated in uncovered on the right and took a pass from Owen. The Terriers tied the game eight minutes later on Art Carriere's shot over Flynn's shoulder...
...policy of no surrender on the boycott: "We have pussyfooted around on this boycott long enough and it has come time to be frank and honest. There seems to be a belief on the part of the Negroes that they have the white people hemmed up in a corner and they are not going to give an inch until they can force the white people of the community to submit to their demands-in fact, swallow them all." (The Negroes demand seating in buses on a first come, first seated basis, with whites seating from the front backward, Negroes from...
From every corner of U.S. industry last week came a cresting flood of 1955 earnings reports. As nothing else, they pinpointed the economy's continuing good health and expanding markets. One prime example was cosmetics-maker Revlon, Inc., which won the annual TV sweepstakes by latching onto the $64,000 Question. President Charles Revson reported that Revlon had a 54% sales increase to $51.6 million for the year, counted record profits of $3,500,000 v. $1,200,000 in 1954. And sales are still climbing...
...decade, first as a starveling poet and then as tutor at Magdalen College, he felt something else at his back-the Hound of Heaven. He fled over the shifting ice floes of intellectual fashion: rationalism, realism, idealism, materialism. Still the Hound pursued, and Lewis was finally backed into a corner that became home...
...flat in some French hay; 4) Rose's and Uncle George's daughter Jenny, by now a remarkably early-blooming 13-year-old begins stalking Alexis. At novel's end, Alexis runs off with the contessa, but in effect tells Jenny to go stand in a corner for five years until she is suitably aged for his gourmet pallet. If it ever took itself any more seriously than a popping champagne cork, Aspects of Love would be silly and embarrassing. But in his neo-pagan way, Novelist Garnett, 63, is deftly amusing. He also demonstrates that...