Word: central
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once the contact was made, another Mountie undercover man got to know Father Taillefer, then made a deal for six ounces of heroin. The priest directed him to Montreal's Central Station, where the heroin was stored in a locker. For three months after that, the police let Father Taillefer operate freely, keeping watch on him and his associates in Montreal's crime belt. When the Mounties pounced four weeks ago, three other Montrealers, who are still awaiting trial, were charged along with Father Taillefer. A cache of 15,000 heroin capsules ("enough to keep the city going...
Republican Central Campaign Committee Philadelphia...
...scrabbly hill country of central Pennsylvania, where coal runs rich to the surface, a man could almost breathe the trouble in the air. Across five counties the peace was broken by Americans fighting Americans...
From the Petersberg, the mountain-top headquarters on the Rhine of the Allied High Commission for Germany, Konrad Adenauer and his ministers descended to their capital at Bonn. At the federal chancellery they met with the directors of the Bank Deutscher Lander, West Germany's central bank. There they agreed to cut the mark from 30? to 22 ½? to bring it into line with sterling and other devalued currencies...
...Anne of the Thousand Days, went backstage at Ken Murray's Blackouts, listened to jazz at Bop City, danced the Charleston at a teen-age party, sipped a horse's neck (ginger ale and lemon peel) at the Stork Club, took a moonlight ride through Central Park in a convertible with the top down, and burned her tongue on a nightcap of hot chocolate at Rumpelmayer's. It was the kind of Manhattan merry-go-round that teen-agers dream about for their first visit to New York. So naturally it was just the thing for Sheila...