Word: central
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhibition of Court, Village and Nomad Rugs from Turkey, Persia, and Central Asia will open at the Fogg Museum of Art at 3 p.m. today. The exhibition will continue until April...
Conant House contains two buildings, one of seven stories and one of five, overlooking central London, it stands in a lot on which stood a mission hall, ten tenement houses, and a laundry before German air raids cleared the ground...
Night Tribute. Meanwhile, other Central Americans said a requiescat of another sort last week. Just 15 years ago Tacho's Guardia had cut down his old rival, Augusto Sandino. On the night of the anniversary, somebody scuttled across the runway at Managua's Xolotlán airfield to leave a memorial to the slain revolutionist: a bunch of red carnations, straw flowers and bougainvillea. At dawn, the fat tire of a Nicaraguan air force C46 rolled over the flowers, staining the black macadam with scarlet pulp at the spot where the Guardia is said to have buried Sandino...
Most of the Nile's annual flood comes roaring down the Blue Nile and the neighboring Atbara when moist seasonal winds blowing across central Africa hit the high mountains of Ethiopia. A dam at the outlet of Lake Tana on the Blue Nile's headwaters will deepen the lake by about 13 feet, and allow it to hold in reserve for the dry season some 1,400 billion gallons of water. With necessary roads, power plants, etc. in wild Ethiopia, this dam is expected to cost $28 million...
...play's central figure is Charlie Castle (John Garfield), onetime idealist and now such a whopping movie star that he is being asked to sign a 14-year contract. Fed up, Charlie wants to leave Hollywood; his wife (Nancy Kelly) is so fed up she has left him. But Charlie is being blackmailed by his bosses. A while back he had run over and killed a child, and he had been saved from prison by the studio's wiliest finagling. Now, when he balks, the studio threatens jail. Later, when things get messier, the studio doesn...