Word: corner
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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George W. Corner, is that of the Dionne quintuplets. Developed from a single fertilized ovum, which then repeatedly sub divided, all the girls had the defect. Fortunately, it was minor : nothing more than a slight webbing between the second and third toes of each foot...
...college did not even bother to catalogue it, The Fortune Teller belonged to a noble family of Lorraine that did not suspect the value of its treasure. Fourteen years ago a learned Benedictine monk "discovered'' the painting, noticed that it bore in the upper right-hand corner the bold and flourishing signature: "G. de La Tour Fecit Luneuilla Lother" (Luneville, Lorraine). The monk sent word to Paris, and the Louvre quickly offered to buy it. But the Louvre's bid was topped by Art Dealer Georges Wildenstein, who had somehow managed to get wind of the deal...
...1950s level it to a field of bricks in prep aration for the sterile rectangles of public housing. With the death of the slum, Goran makes an effort at redeeming his unsavory hero; it does not quite come off, compared to the snarling realism and cool, street-corner observation that shapes the rest of this story of Ike-o's growing up. The raucous garbage heap of Sobaski's Stairway has been scraped off like a scab by the welfare state, but in this novel its aroma of gamy decay still hangs heavy on the Pittsburgh...
With all the world talking about the urgent importance of granting economic aid to developing countries, the quiet man off in the corner has been the Federal Republic of West Germany. West German gold and foreign-exchange reserves have shot up to a whacking $6.5 billion (British holdings: $2.8 billion), and West German exports now top those of every other European country. Yet since 1956 the Germans have spent just $60 million altogether in technical aid. Last week when the nine-nation Development Assistance Group met in Bonn, the U.S.'s Assistant Secretary of the Treasury T. Graydon Upton...
...railed against all his life. Said Labor's Hugh Gaitskell: "His death is as if a fire had gone out-a fire which we sometimes found too hot, by which we were sometimes scorched, but a fire which warmed and cheered us and stimulated us." In a corner seat of the front bench below the gangway sat the solitary figure of Sir Winston Churchill, who had often been Nye Bevan's bitterest foe. When Gaitskell recalled some of Nye's fierce sallies, including the attack on Churchill when he cried that he welcomed the "opportunity of picking...