Word: corner
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...took the events of the first week of May to jar Pusey out of his position and make him turn the corner that the Faculty had rounded on October 15. Following President Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia and the deaths of the students at Kent State, Pusey issued a statement in which he said, "I urge all officers of the University, while not neglecting their responsibilities toward the work of the University, to make every effort to accommodate interruptions in our normal procedures which may be occasioned in the next few days by acts of conscience relating...
...like and Tina Turner concert in the Stadium, State police swarmed around the gates and mounted police occupied every corner. As soon as Tina Turner finished her set, she was escorted to her trailer by a phalanx of blue-helmeted troopers. The crowd howled in dismay. Purse-snatching and muggings increased...
...long after American troops entered Cambodia, the usual complement of tourists, strollers and protesters in Washington's Lafayette Square were startled to see a swarm of black limousines pull out of the White House gates, wheel around the corner and descend on A.F.L.-C.I.O. headquarters. President Nixon, maps and charts in tow, had come to explain his Cambodian policy to the executive labor council. He thus made a parlor call in a continuing courtship that Republicans hope will erode the Democratic Party's traditional base among working men and women...
...badges gleaming on their blue tunics, the Chinese, many of whom were young government officials, moved off by themselves into a corner-as they usually do. To a man, they pulled out their little red books and began studying the gospel according to Mao. The American teen-agers were fascinated. Two of them approached the knot of Chinese and offered to buy the Mao badges. The Chinese ignored them. The Americans persisted. Then one Chinese let loose with a torrent of Mandarin that sounded abusive...
...managing the Dreyfus Corp., Stein is paid $160,000 a year; he also owns 5% of the corporation's stock, a holding now worth about $2,000,000. He runs his empire in a muted, loosely organized style. Visitors often find him sprawled in an armchair in his corner office on the 35th floor of Manhattan's General Motors Building, his shoes off while he studies charts. Stein's informal clothes, casual manner and diffident speech are outward manifestations of a state of mind. He soaks up information, but prefers getting it from people rather than books. An unschooled...