Word: center
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buildings that were going up, said the President, were the most important in the world, "for they are the center of man's hope . . . They signify that the peoples of the world are of one mind in their determination to solve their common problems . . ." He also called for adoption of the U.S. plan for international atomic energy control, which Russia has been blocking. It was a nice celebration, and deserved the world's earnest best wishes; it would need them...
Steinmann entered the cage in awful silence. He tripped and quickly saved himself. The lions snarled, but none of them moved from the tight phalanx they had formed in the cage's center. Finally one jumped on a pedestal. "Bravo!" shouted Lawyer Valensi. Two minutes later another lion lazily climbed onto his pedestal. "Fini," cried Circus Master Bouglione. "Get him out of there. He doesn't know what he's doing. He'll make a buffet lunch for those lions...
...Nice? When she finds it necessary, Queen Mary can speak her mind. Once she was opening a training center for girl domestics. Up-to-date kitchens gleamed with all the latest appliances. The anxious ladies in charge cocked their ears for the queen's words of approval. "It's too hot in here for those girls," said Queen Mary. "I'll send round an electric fan tomorrow." Next day the fan arrived. In an age marked by universal uncertainty on moral questions, Britain's elder Queen is plagued by few if any doubts...
...hard-hitting Minister of Interior in the Queuille regime, to see what he could do. By the narrowest margin in French parliamentary history, Moch had been approved by the Assembly, but he could not form a cabinet. It seemed that neither of the other two parties in the center coalition, the Radicals and Popular Republicans, wanted a Socialist premier. Then long-suffering M. Auriol called on the Radicals' René Mayer...
...Crimson's win, as well as ending a two-game scoreless streak, indicated that Munro's new lineup experiment is a good one. Ex-halfback Bell was at center forward for the first time, while Wolf, erstwhile holder of the position, moved over to outside left...