Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter now at work behind the closed White House doors is not the Jimmy Carter we grew to know in the first 30 months of his presidency. It is true that he was from the beginning a somewhat elusive figure. But at the center there was a man of regular habits, kindly ways and comfortable personal characteristics. He did warn us last week that he was going to change "my life-style and my way of working." But the events of this week represent more than that...
...post on the second ballot, with 192 out of the 377 valid votes cast. Two leftist candidates, Italian Socialist Mario Zagari and Italian Communist Giorgio Amendola, went down to defeat with 138 and 47 votes respectively. Veil's victory thus demonstrated the effective dominance of the center-right parties in the Parliament, whose members were picked in direct elections throughout the nine European Community countries last month...
...empire. By prudish Soviet standards, Pikul's empurpled prose is downright lurid. In one key scene, for example, Rasputin sneaks up to the Tsarina as she prays for her hemophiliac son. Out of the shadows steps the "bony peasant, his face framed by long hair parted in the center and glistening with oil, his eyes emitting a kind of hypnotic sparkle." The Tsarina shakes "in a fit of nervous excitement" as they gaze at each other. The monk scoops her up and strokes her. She slips her arms around his neck and cries, "More, more, carry me around...
...craft ($679) made of cy-clolac, a high-impact plastic, which along with its rig weighs 60 Ibs. Windsurfing International has licensed a Dutch textile firm to make and market the board in Europe, and at least 60 European companies are producing imitations. In fact, Europe has become the center of windsurfing activity: more than 130,000 boards will be sold there this year...
This is his second year of teaching at the Harvard Dance Center. "I love it. The people are nice, respectful, responsive--I couldn't help but love...