Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edward Kelleher, head of Chicago's Municipal Court Psychiatric Institute, flatly called Gein a schizophrenic, considered his case "unparalleled in modern history." At week's end Eddie Gein was committed to Wisconsin's Central State Hospital (for the criminal insane) for observation...
...made no comment about the central kitchen, but instead withdrew three manuscripts from his large, dog-eared briefcase and gazed fondly at them. Marquand writes his novels by dictating to his secretary--"It spurs you to write quickly since you're paying her by the hour. It takes a while to learn not to write self-consciously this...
These 100 inspirational tales of "men and women who weren't afraid to take a chance" are culled from issues of Fortune magazine and now issued for the paper-cover trade. In the preface the editors state their conviction that "the entrepreneurs, who are the central figures in each story, are an important element in the U.S. economy" and that "there are plenty of opportunities, in good times and bad, for those who have the wit to see them...
They discovered Central Park and all the usual corn, and were back in New Haven in time for last Saturday's badness. Disheartened by the game, the birds got drunk together, and decided to return to their chains. The owl gave herself up Saturday night, and Thresky, thoroughly demoralized, fluttered back to his lonesome prominence above Mt. Auburn...
...speeded by $3 billion Inga hydroelectric project, the world's biggest, to start building soon near mouth of the Congo River. Complex of dams and power stations will generate 200 billion kw-h a year-about twelve times the output of Grand Coulee Dam -for power-short central Africa. Belgium figures project will attract $15 billion to $20 billion in Congo industrial investment...