Word: center
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government toward a balanced budget. He was urging more efficient tax collecting, more efficient production techniques. His staff had calculated that a rationalization of methods could increase output by 10% to 15% without longer working hours or new equipment. Impressed, the French government planned to set up a "national center of productivity," to send 1,500 executives, engineers and workers to study methods in the U.S. (the Communists had so far blocked these plans). Ahead lay other plans for reorientation of France's economy-fewer vineyards and more wheatfields, heavy machinery instead of perfumes and fancy handbags...
...flustered him. Government ministers, explaining land redistribution, stared when he cut them short with "I'm not interested in politics. I want facts. It's strictly a business proposition." Washington heard that Zellerbach had antagonized just about everyone he met, that he was ripping into left, center and right for not seeing things the way Americans do. He antagonized a lot of Italians by telling them that land reform was bad because it would decrease production. This, he said, was just his personal opinion; Italians had a hard time distinguishing between Zellerbach, the person, and Zellerbach, the ECAdministrator...
...proceeds, the play becomes more & more a stock thriller, until the tricks of the traitors become indistinguishable from tricks of the trade. Playwright Wouk does little to plumb the presumably complex mind of his young scientist. After giving every indication that Carr is to be the center of a serious drama, the author makes him little more than an instrument of the plot...
Fortitude Interludes. Contrary to the common belief that Nelson was a "very delicate man," the best evidence is that he was unusually robust. He had a morbid fear of serious illness, and it made him a self-centered hypochondriac; his letters swarmed with such remarks as: "I ... venture to say [that] a very short space of time will send me to that bourne from which none return . . ." To most of his seamen he was the kindest, gentlest hero imaginable; to his Sea Lords he was exasperatingly 'vindictive, suspicious and intolerant. He was as alarmingly unstable as a prima donna...
...Salvaged from a frigate which sank off the Dutch coast in 1799 with ?1,000,000 in gold aboard, ruining many underwriters. The bell hangs over Lloyd's center rostrum, is rung by a "waiter" in scarlet and gold. One stroke means disaster at sea; two mean good news...