Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the English generally do not consider it quite polite to talk about God in public, all Britain seemed to look forward to this particular debate. In one corner, wearing a thin-lipped smile and a keen twinkle, was Mrs. Margaret Knight, 51, the atheist psychologist who had stirred up press and public the week before by urging parents in a radio talk not to tell their children a lot of fairytales about religion and God (TIME, Jan. 24). Opposing her before a BBC microphone was motherly Mrs. Jenny Morton, 52, onetime Church of Scotland missionary in India...
...address, found documents and clues that persuaded Stanton that Actor Booth was responsible. As day broke, Stanton ordered all exits from the capital checked again, and decided that Booth had probably got away into southern Maryland. Then, as troopers rode out along the Potomac (it took twelve days to corner and kill Booth), Stanton and Mrs. Lincoln entered the little bedroom where Lincoln lay on a cornhusk mattress. Outside, a throng of weeping people, mainly Negroes, waited in the damp street. Cavalry horses were tied four and five to a picket post along the block. Newsboys ran past, shouting: "Assassination...
...were holding down a quiet corner table at the Boston Tobacco Club's annual sports night. Cigarette, cigar, and candy distributors from Eastern Massachusetts had gathered to present their annual "unsung hero" award to the Crimson's Frank White. White, you will no doubt recall, is the young man who hipped a left-handed pass to Bob Cochran to win the most recent Yale game...
...Cleveland corporation a vice president was lucky enough to wangle a choice corner office. His equal down the hall would not be appeased until he had a private washroom installed in his office. Some executives spend hours on such things as the "time chart" to prove that they get so many telephone calls and letters that one secretary alone cannot possibly do the job; therefore, they need two secretaries...
...granted. Town-dwelling mosquitoes, Aëdes aegypti, which carry the virus, are found in a continuous belt reaching from El Salvador through Mexico and into much of the U.S. Most of the U.S. South (all the territory below a line drawn from Yuma, Ariz, to the northeast corner of New Mexico and across the continent to where Virginia and North Carolina meet the Atlantic) is infested with these mosquitoes. In this area- one-third of the country-the disease could flare up at any time...