Word: centered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...village north of Berlin where her husband is a physician. Dr. K., a Stalingrad prisoner, was released a year ago and soon resumed his old practice. The local MVD eyed his success and set their price. He was summoned and instructed to use his office as an intelligence center, to submit reports on all his patients, some of whom were suspected of being "enemies of democracy." He refused. He was told that if he remained intransigent, he would be imprisoned. When he finally told his wife, she came to Berlin to learn if she and her husband could escape...
That night, rain dampened the Negroes' fury, but next day the rioting broke out anew. Driven from Durban's center by police and hastily mobilized army and navy units, the Zulus roared into the ring of Indian settlements surrounding the city, chanting their age-old war songs, brandishing flaming torches, iron spikes and their clublike knobkerries. Whenever an Indian was spotted by the blacks, the fierce cry "Bulala!" (Kill!) was raised...
Already planning a welcome for the famous Easterners, Stanford's head yell leader, Tom Elke, announced he will have "the whole rooting section dressed in top hats, tails, and white ties. A section in the center will wear red ties, making...
...Connecticut. At dinner that night, Mr. Stock suggested that Mrs. Coolidge's quartet should play at the festival. Her answer, "Why go so far; why not have it here?" was the beginning of the great scheme which has made the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts a world famous music center. Appropriately enough Mrs. Coolidge was made honorary president of Tanglewood when it was organized...
...where she built a chamber music auditorium, Coolidge Hall. To it she added the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, the greatest institution of music patronage in the world. On establishing the Foundation, Mrs. Coolidge wrote, "Fashion is an enemy to art, I think, and if we aim at a musical center which shall be as respectively national as the Library... it would be an easy matter to explain the emission of the society element. I have wished to make possible... the composition and performance of music in ways which might otherwise be considered too unique or too expensive to be ordinarily...