Word: center
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hurricane of charges and countercharges whirled through Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week while pickets chanted, prayed and shouted on the sidewalks outside. At the storm's center, 2,800 delegates to the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace-Communists and both calculating and befuddled followers-wallowed in a sea of windy "peace" talk. In all the tumult, the delegates and their gusts of fog-laden dialectics could at first hardly be heard...
...center of the excitement was the delegation from Russia and the Iron Curtain countries of Europe. Their boss and director was ruddy, narrow-eyed Alexander Fadeev, political boss of Soviet writers, who is reputed to be an MVD official assigned to the part of an intellectual in search of peace. Their showpiece-and the only visitor of major stature-was Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. A shy, stiff-shouldered man with a pale, wide forehead, Shostakovich was painfully ill at ease. To the repeated ovations he received he ducked his head abruptly again & again, like a small boy after a commencement speech...
...trip will also give McInnis a chance to alternate his outfielders in order to attain the best-hitting and tightest-fielding combination by the time the team returns to Cambridge. Tentative plans call for Steve Howe to open in left, Hal Moffie in center, and John Caulfield in right...
...triumphal march I walked right up to the center of the stage. The Christian Science Monitor said this scene was the best part of the opera, and added, "The always amazing business of deploying the throng without confusion was managed with the usual skill...
...marched onto the stage and did a column-left-about and marched off. It was all over. For half a second I had been on the center of the stage, and I had even heard someone in the boxes snicker...