Word: center
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Panama administration since 1946, was in effect chief of staff of the nation's only armed force, the highly trained 2,000-man police corps. He and a staff of fanatically loyal aides had absolute control of the modern police headquarters, a combination fortress, arsenal, barracks, radio communications center and model jail (known locally as the Hotel Remón). By contrast, the only force directly at the President's disposal was his ceRemónial bodyguard...
...risen in two years from 500 to 1,200 while a "traveler sent around the big towns of the north [of England] was able to sell only one subscription in a year." Lamented Connolly bitterly: "The public gets the magazine it deserves. London, of course, is a particularly disheartening center from which to operate . . . that sterile, embittered, traditional literary society which has killed so many finer things than a review of literature...
...room where you can eat a wiener schnitzel and drink an African Zombie. At 8:30 and 11:30 p.m. the nitery's green-vested waiters clear the dessert dishes and fill the water glasses; the lights dim, and the stage at one end of the room becomes the center of interest for the next hour, as a group of young singers and dancers take over...
...captain is a good kicker and gained his pro-Crimson experience at Germantown Friends School, where he played center forward. This season Wolf started as outside right and gradually worked his way left on the line...
...Durer's woodcuts. Later watercolors, however, are pure reflections of his own creativeness. These paintings, dating from 1946 to the present, repeatedly picture a twisted, angular, skeleton-like creature whom Grosz calls "the Gray Man." Other recurring symbols are an artist's canvas with a hole torn in its center, and a rainbow-colored flag torn from its staff. The series of water-colors, with its fantastic, degraded monsters and burning luminosity of color, is like a ghastly comic strip...