Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tambour," a 1 1/2-foot projection in the far corner of the hazard side, is another device used to belabor the defender...
EARTH! flashes a neon sign on a certain street corner at Place Pigalle. On the sidewalk, streetwalkers nudge potential customers, and if business is slow or feet begin to hurt, they drop into a tiny cremerie for a cognac or an ice cream or a payoff to a pimp. Behind the bar is Odette...
...most of which are highly secret, the Air Force maintains Patrick Air Force Base on the east coast of central Florida. From Cape Canaveral, a scrub-covered island a few miles offshore, a long, highly instrumented range slants southeast across the Bahamas, skirts the Dominican Republic and crosses a corner of Puerto Rico. This distance, more than 1,000 miles, is enough for the present, but the range is being extended to Ascension Island between Brazil and Africa, making its total length more than 5,000 miles...
...flying boats ideal for empire routes, where long runways and well-equipped airfields were few and far between, ordered four models, including a gigantic, ten-engined Saunders-Roe Princess flying boat at a cost of some $22 million. As it turned out, big airfields were built in virtually every corner of the world during World War II, thus making Great Britain's flying boats obsolete...
Heckscher was slightly off his game, but his crushing smash service and soft corner shots were too much for Tony LaFleur. Heckscher actually hit his opponent several times with his bullet-like serve and often caught him flat-footed with his deft corners, winning...