Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man sitting in the corner of the waiting room tapped his left foot three times, his right foot twice, sighed, and started over again. Seated across from him was a girl with short, light brown hair who wore a green sweater. Every so often she raised her head from a tightly held copy of Hamlet to stare at the cracked ceiling...
Ordered to stop about 500 yards from the bank, John Kuhel saw a jeepload of U.S. military police rounding the corner, and decided on a desperate chance. He raced his motor, pulled the wheel hard left and let out the clutch, hoping to knock Wally off his seat. Recovering his balance almost instantly, Wally instead aimed his gun at Kuhel's head. Two pistol shots rang out. The MPs swarmed about the Kuhel car. Instead of a dead banker, they found a dead gangster-and, in the back seat of the car, a small boy holding in his hand...
...Americans bet heavily not merely on horses but on all sports. There would be hundreds of thousands of dollars wagered on Saturday's halfbacks, even more on the strong arms of Series pitchers. And from high rollers to "little jerks" (as the big bookmakers call hole-and-corner operators), every smart-money boy knew he would get the sharpest line from Leo Hirschfield's handicappers at Athletic Publications...
...while, though neither of them knew it, the light cast a lengthening shadow across the land. In gratitude to his favorite, the emperor had made her former master his prime minister, and that rapacious man had made the name of Yang a byword and a hissing in every corner of the empire. At last there was a revolution. The emperor's own guard put the tyrant to death, and demanded the life of Yang Kwei Fei as well. The emperor, desperate, begged them to spare her, but in vain. She was hanged with her own silk scarf from...
...third row. "Did you want another war?" a heavy man with a bald dome surrounded by a white fringe cried. After the movie cameras had swung around, he repeated the question. McCormack continued. "Answer the man," cried a man in the first row and then another from the corner. The audience waited for an answer, so the majority leader asked if the man wanted another Munich. Two policemen walked over to the man in the third row and gave him a quick lecture before the photographers could focus. McCormack continued, "Disagree without being disagreeable...