Word: center
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Stalin's hand the binding to Moscow (i.e., "the socialist center") has been proceeding apace. Since December 1943, 16 separate treaties of military alliance have knitted together the Soviet motherland and her East European brood. The last of these (linking Russia, Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria) were signed between January and March 1948-a year before the emergence of a counterpart in the West...
Damn the Communists. Kirkenes' Finnish neighbors over the line were carefully moved back behind a Soviet "security belt." Some six divisions of the Red army moved up to protect the new border. Norwegians were forbidden to go to Petsamo (which the Russians named Pechenga), the Finnish nickel center across the Pasvik River. Meanwhile, Hoelvold established himself as local Red leader. He built up an eight-man Communist bloc in Kirkenes' 28-man town council. He began to publish a Mimeographed party newspaper. With his Russian friends beaming from the other side of the Pasvik, he blasted Norway...
...sing in the Emerald Room, but carefree customers swore into the microphone ("Where the hell's my seat?"), and NBC cut Dottie off the air. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, sniffing through the hotel, found its long green corridors "depressing," concluded that it was a "tragic . . . imitation [of] Rockefeller Center out here on the prairie . . . There should be written in front of it, in great tall letters, in electric lights...
...throw, and he took a vicious right-handed cut at the ball in a style that reminded some sportwriters of "Ducky" Medwick in his heyday with the St. Louis Cardinals. Before the spring training even began, the Detroit Tigers had announced flatly that Johnny Groth would play center field for them this year. "I took one look at him," explained Manager Robert Rolfe, "and decided instantly." Added "Red" Rolfe: "He may develop into a hell of a ballplayer...
Three defensemen, who concentrate so hard on guarding their men that the goalie has to shout out at intervals where the ball is. They are not allowed ever the center line into the attack zone...