Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have been involved in planning for the mission, which is designed to enable astronomers to take high resolution x-ray photographs...
...daydreaming with her broomstick, or the guests waltzing at the royal ball--and the content of the movement is a trite and anonymous classical pattern. Cunningham's choreographic vocabulary is limited, ignoring both the music (a beguiling Prokofiev score) and any place of space outside the lateral extension of center stage...
...waiting for the Center for Disease Control to analyze the salmonella samples from the Union, Winthrop and Kirkland Houses to see if the strains of salmonella bacteria are the same. Krause said. If the salmonella samples are all the same type, then the Union would be the original source of the outbreak, Krause added...
Night after night, just before bedtime for federal prisoners, two Mafia triggermen walked up to the modern twelve-story Metropolitan Correction Center near New York's city hall. With unidentified inside help, locked doors opened mysteriously for the gunmen, who took up positions in the hall outside one particular cell. Tossing restlessly on the hard pallet behind the bars was chunky Carmine ("Lillo") Galante, 68, who once aspired to become the Mafia's capo di tutti capi (boss of bosses). As lights dimmed in the cell block, the two armed men settled down for a nightlong vigil. Their...
When Galante got that fearful word, he was in the Metropolitan Correction Center. He soon learned that killers from two families were trying to get him: triggermen who worked for Dellacroce and others who belonged to the Colombo family, a clan that after a decade of internal struggle is trying to regain other mobsters' regard-and Dellacroce's thanks-by eliminating his rival. Knowing how easily he could be assassinated in prison, Galante arranged to have his bodyguards take up their nighttime baby-sitting beside his cell...