Word: center
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When his friends heard of the letters, they warned George that he'd better move to the center of the town. His answer was: "I am not going [to] leave my home-I've fought in four wars and am not going to be frightened by these tramps...
...this activity as a rude intrusion on the quiet culture of their ancient capital. "General Fu is not defending Peiping," they told each other, "Peiping is defending General Fu." There was much to support this view. It was a common rumor that the Reds had picked the lovely cultural center for their national capital. A Communist spokesman in Hong Kong said flatly: "No Chinese army will take the responsibility of destroying Peiping...
...Java and Sumatra, Dutch land forces broke through old truce lines at several points, raced almost unopposed across republican territory. Dutch marines landed in east and central Java. At week's end, the Dutch were marching into the republican oil center at Tjepu (where last September the republic had smashed a Communist uprising...
...lady braves a lion's den to win a fox furpiece), and "A Stitch in Time . . ." (a doll-size girl sews a rhinestone on to a life-size silk stocking). Another proverb, "People Who Live in Glass Houses" called for two figures under a glass bell in the center of a residential square (see cut). The giant hands accusing them from neighboring doors and windows were meant to advertise Bonwit's gloves...
...drink and talk and play all-night poker. Church for most of them used to be a place for christenings, weddings and funerals-and perhaps for a service on Christmas and Easter. But somehow, during the war, the River Valley members began to find themselves talking about how the center of each community should be its church-and there was no church among the big, wooded estates of the Upper River Road district where they lived...