Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both were hanging around the corner of 72nd and Broadway with a bunch of Puerto Rican toughs when the word was passed that white kids in the Clinton area had been beating up Puerto Ricans in the Clinton section (when in fact both whites and Puerto Ricans had been living together there in comparative peace). It was all the excuse they needed for a rumble. The victims in the Clinton playground knew neither their attackers nor the reasons for the attack...
...Kowloon's alleys-some of the widest are only 6 ft. across-prostitutes peer from hundreds of dark doorways, and hordes of emaciated Chinese line up outside tiny, shuttered shops to buy pinches of heroin (at 5? a pinch), then squat on a corner to inhale it through rolled paper tubes or matchbox funnels. The dingy restaurants serve dog and cat meat supplied by members of Triad, Kowloon's secret society, which also operates the booming gambling, narcotics and prostitution rackets...
...tactics: in business as a Pier Six battler, he had turned Fancy Dan. Instead of ducking his head and plowing in, Fullmer danced tantalizingly beyond the reach of Basilio's deadly left hook. When Basilio swung, Fullmer countered with deft precision. When Basilio crowded him into a corner, Fullmer calmly retreated into a cocoon of arms and shoulders, then emerged to give better than he got. When Basilio clinched, Fullmer wrestled him about as he pleased and tossed in an occasional elbow for old time's sake. In the 14th, eyes glowering behind scarred, gnarled brows, Basilio took...
...Chloe ("what a great heart beat beneath that flat chest") mercifully ends the story by marrying him. All of which is one more example of what readers have known since Barefoot Boy with Cheek: Humorist Max Shulman is a sort of Seventh Avenue A. A. Milne. He has a corner on pooh...
...neighborhood, mainly immigrant Italian and Jewish families, had its tough side. "Dutch Schultz ran his rackets there," recalls Rocky. "But none of my real friends ever went to prison." The farthest Rocky ever strayed from the diamond was to the corner pool parlor, where he learned to shoot a sharp game. Rocky was too busy getting ready for the big leagues, squeezing rubber balls to build up his hand and arm muscles (he still does), hoarding his dimes to buy a good glove. His throwing arm was soon strong enough to win bets from the unwary, and there are those...