Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good faith, their superior ground forces would give them a military advantage which might well tempt them into provoking limited peripheral conflicts without fear of nuclear retaliation. The next step, or possibly a concurrent one, according to Khrushchev, would be the removal of foreign troops from western and central Europe: the United States would pull back 3000 miles across an ocean; the Soviet Union would pull back several hundred miles across land...
...more demanding one: while Schary could work with the breezy personality of the adult F.D.R., Gibson has as his heroine a six-year-old girl who cannot speak a word. There is, of course, the wonderful Annie, beautifully played by Miss Bancroft, but Helen remains the central figure, an unusual and tremendously difficult character...
Julie Harris, as a lonely and homely woman seeking a husband in America's sunshine capital, is immensely appealing in the central role. But the play itself is a travesty, a trite rehash of travel-folder propaganda and True Love Confessions, with a heavy touch of Pamela. The problems the play poses and agonizes could be solved with a quick letter to Dear Abby...
Bicycles may be registered at the fire station near Memorial Hall from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday, or at the police station in Central Square from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays. Registrants are expected to obey all regulations concerning the operation of bicycles, and not to park on sidewalks...
...NAACP is currently trying to force a North Carolina town into producing an overall desegregation plan), or allowing a skillful legal device to sabotage the spirit of its 1954 ruling. The question of whether assignment by race is justified when accompanied by the right to appeal for transfer is central in the case. If it is justified, Southern schools will have their "pioneers," Jackie Robinsons of education, indefinitely and the Federal Courts will be faced with dozens of "transfer" cases for years to come...