Word: center
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also charged that false confessions were obtained in mock trials, at which "the . . . plaintiff would see before him a long table . . . with candles burning at both ends . . . and a crucifix in the center . . . [The Germans] were informed or led to believe that they were being tried by Americans for violations of international law. At the other end of the table would be the prosecutor, who would read the charges, yell and scream at these 18-and 20-year-old plaintiffs and attempt to force confessions from them...
...biting to be more effective." In after-dinner speeches, which he makes as offhandedly as he once handled a football, he likes to describe the best player he ever had in this department, a guard named Biter Jones. "He was terrific. In one season he bit seven guards, one center and a flanker back, and was so clever at it that he was penalized only 65 yards...
...drugs that produce effects on the body like the symptoms of the disease. In the U.S., medical schools that were once homeopathic have been turning away from Hahnemann's teachings, toward orthodoxy and American Medical Association recognition. Last September, Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College, once a center of homeopathy, dropped homeopathy as a required course; Manhattan's New York Medical College still requires one short course. Graduates of both schools are M.D.s, in full medical standing...
...smiling young Russian opened the door and said, "Good day." The man in the partisan officer's uniform entered and went straight to the rickety table in the center of the room. Carefully following the agreed formula, he laid out the things he had brought-five potatoes here, a quarter-pound of tea in the center, a handful of raisins to the left. Then the visitor nervously repeated the words of the code: "Your friend Sasha asked me to pay you my respects and to thank you for your kindness to his mother." The Russian quickly gave...
...Foundation will be expected to supply $1,000,000 of the total $3,650,000 estimated necessary for the graduate center. The Law School in currently asking for $1,650,000 from its alumni while the balance is to be provided by friends and alumni of the other graduate schools...