Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welcoming the American Council on Education's convention to Washington, the President made a succinct point with a personal anecdote: "I have never forgotten my shock, once, when I saw a very modern-looking village deserted in a far corner of Africa. It had been deserted because the builders put running water into all the houses. The women rebelled because there was now taken away from them their only excuse for social contact with their own kind, at the village well. I had been guilty of the very great error of putting into their minds and hearts the same...
Nice to See You. As the zero hour approached, friends pleaded and entreated with Marc to change his mind, to no avail. On the morning of Sept. 28, gloom hung like a pall in the bar of Le Practic. Even VoVo lay silent, crouched in a corner. Then someone, peering from the window, cried, "Why, there's Marc now!" And down the street, wearing the neat, pin-stripe suit that fitted him so snugly, came Marc. "I've decided to give myself a reprieve," he beamed. "Beefsteak with pepper, please, Madame. Well, it's nice...
...Lloyd, starting left inside, got the first Crimson goal at 2:20 of the opening period. At 19:40 of the same quarter Alex Haegler put in the second. Midway in the next period Stacy Holmes booted a loose ball from 20 feet out into the upper left hand corner, the best shot of the afternoon. Marv Weiss scored the final goal of the game at 9:08 of the third quarter...
Nock's extensive travels are remembered as fragments of beautiful moments. "I remember dawns: a sunrise in Syria over the snows of Lebanon for example. Or the rainy, wretched, perfectly filthy day in Greece when we turned a corner and suddenly came upon the Acropolis for the first time. And--why, you wouldn't believe how good the Business School looks on particular mornings...
Only Turks. The nation he put back together was slightly larger than Texas-296,000 sq.mi.-its vast bulk nestled in Asia Minor, with 9,000 sq.mi. wedging into Europe's southeastern corner. Kemal was satisfied. "We are now Turks-only Turks," he exulted. He wanted none of the old overextended Ottoman empire. "Away with dreams and shadows; they have cost us dearly," he said...