Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More strictly on the Cambridge scene, a professional wrecking crew began to clear the land at the corner of Winthrop and Dunster Streets and foundation work started on a building eventually named the "Blockhouse...
After his capture Hale was brought to the headquarters of General William Howe in Manhattan's Beekman Mansion (at what is now the corner of First Avenue and 51st Street), where he volunteered his name, rank and mission. He was condemned to death, and held overnight in the greenhouse of the mansion. The next morning, Sept. 22, 1776, at 11 a.m., he was hanged at a point which is now 66th Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan. His calm dignity and poise made a deep impression on Captain John Montresor, an aide-de-camp to General Howe...
...fight in 1941 when Heavyweight Lou ("Cosmic Punch") Nova lost by a six-round technical knockout to Champion Joe Louis. Wrote Flaherty: "The cowardly [appearance of] Nova was like a frightened, screaming child at vaccination time . . . They lugged his carcass and towed it in abject disgrace toward his corner. He smiled bravely in the safety of his dressing room, wiping out the manliness of every victory he had ever...
...field broke cleanly on the first try. Downhill to Tattenham Corner, Acropolis was moving well in fourth place; Phil Drake was slogging along in the pack, 20 lengths behind the leader. Uphill into the stretch, Irish-bred Panaslipper (100 to 1) charged into the lead on the outside. "I thought I was home and dried," said Panaslipper's Jockey Jim Eddery. Then Phil Drake came on. The big-hearted son of Admiral Drake slid past as if the field had slowed to a trot. Suzy Volterra's red and white silks crossed under the wire a length...
...Meriwether Lewis and William Clark great explorers-coolheadedness, caution and iron self-discipline-are precisely the ones the moviemakers have thrown out the window. The Lewis and Clark of Far Horizons (Fred MacMurray and Charlton Heston) are Hollywoodized into a pair of buffoons who would have trouble finding the corner mailbox. History records that Sacajawea, the expedition's Indian interpreter, was one of the wives of a French guide and the mother of his son. Hollywood knows better: actually, she was unmarried Donna Reed, a high-fashion pulse-thumper turned out in beautifully tailored buckskins. Heston finds...