Word: corner
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...silver. In March, they used their $2 silver hoard to buy even more of the metal. After the market collapsed later month, the pair had to use their vast holdings, including race horses, art and antiques, as collateral to back the loans had made in their attempt to corner world silver market. A battered Hunt later said, "A billion dollars is what it used...
...intensity of the feud has few parallels in other democracies. In one corner is aggressive, right-of-center Shimon Peres, 57, the former Defense Minister who is trying to retain the Labor Party leadership he inherited in 1977. In the other is cautious, centrist, former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 58, who was discredited by scandal 3½ years ago, but has been battling ever since to regain the leadership. Peres and Rabin have served in Cabinets together, and they even live within two blocks of each other in the same Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Aviv...
...Crimson came out storming after the opening buzzer and got an emotional boost when Sara Fischer gave Harvard a 1-0 lead in the first ten seconds of play. Center Alex Lightfoot beat the Tiger defender to the puck in the corner and centered it to Fischer, who rifled a quick wrist shot by goalie Becky Potter...
Fischer stole the puck in the corner and attempted to stuff it by Potter. Lightfoot charged into the scramble in front and banged a shot into the twine...
Sears said the fiscal irresponsibility of Boston Mayor Kevin White prompted the need for the proposition. White "has painted the city of Boston into a corner," Sears added...