Word: centered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suddenly we were blinded by a bright glare. We had broken through into the center of the doughnut. It was like coming out of a tunnel. Wind velocity dropped at least one-half in the space of seconds. The plane righted itself and started climbing, but in a minute and a half we crossed the relative calm of the center and smashed into the other side...
...that paralyzing moment the plane gained forward momentum. Two hundred and fifty feet below, the sea looked like a huge vanilla milk-shake in a mixer. All around, for a hundred miles in any direction and for possibly 20,000 feet upward, was the hurricane. We were in the center...
...Agenda. In Rockefeller Center, before the gilded statue of Prometheus, the American Association for the United Nations was industriously hammering together a set of flagpoles, loudspeakers and rostrums for the celebration of "United Nations Week." Westchester County's Tarrytown had somehow been appointed "model United Nations community," and forthwith broke out in a rash of red-white-&-blue bunting. While 10,000 enthusiasts besieged the Secretariat for tickets to the great International Floor Show (only 30 visitors would be admitted the first day), Tarrytown's Fire Department, the Girls' Friendly Society, the Kiwanis Club of Bound Brook...
Said Sofia's Government-controlled Fatherland Front: "The new democratic Greek government which will be the center of the Free Greek State . . . presents the only correct and sensible solution of the Greek question." Said Izgrev: "Political circles comment on the meaning attached to last week's departure [from Athens] of the Yugoslav charge and the Soviet Ambassador. It is known that both left without requesting return visas. It is believed that perhaps the Slav countries will recall their diplomatic missions from Athens and will recognize a 'free Greece...
Built in 1900 as a students' religious center, the House was named for Phillips Brooks, dedicated to "piety, charity, and hospitality," and is interdenominational in character. In 1904 the Phillips Brooks House Association was formed to work in religious and social service fields...