Word: corner
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Bill O'Dwyer was forever denouncing Tammany Hall, which the late Fiorello La Guardia had all but smashed, but when election time came around, he would be found, cozy in the corner of the Tammany tiger. Recently, ex-Cop O'Dwyer disturbed many a New Yorker by denouncing a prosecutor who was investigating crookedness on the police force (TIME, July...
Last week Henry Wallace turned another corner of his many-cornered life. He quit the Progressives. He wrote: "I can more effectively serve the cause of peace by resigning." He went even further. On the radio he said: "Since the Korean affair, I have reversed my position with regard to the atomic bomb. That is, I think events have justified...
...street, and there is a doorway, corner or tree within a step or two, take shelter there. Turn your back to the light and hug the building, to avoid falling masonry or flying glass...
...Gamma radiation travels with the speed of light and is gone instantly. Heat radiation lasts as long as three seconds (which may be time enough to duck into a doorway or sprint a couple of steps around a corner). The blast or shock wave races a mile in five seconds. After an air burst, stay where you are for at least a minute, and watch out for falling debris. After an underwater burst, the danger from radioactive mist may last for several hours...
...infantrymen of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division fiddled with a radio. They picked up a North Korean station and got the brassy blare of a Sousa march. It was followed by the honeyed words (in English) of a woman announcer, urging the boys to "go back home to your corner drugstores" and boasting of fantastic North Korean successes ("already there are 6,000 U.S. dead...