Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today was quiet, and around Central High School troops were reduced in number and military precautions relaxed. At 11:25 this morning, the barricades which had been set up around the school were taken down and the guards was reduced to a token force...
...Associated Press last night reported that one of the season's big football games for Little Rock was scheduled for yesterday evening at the 5,000-seat Central Stadium. By tradition, Negroes do not attend the high school's games and it was not anticipated that any would attempt...
Manhattan newspapers' avoidance of the racial tag posed a more delicate problem for editors. Nepal's U.N. Delegate Rishikesh Shaha was stabbed and robbed in Central Park last week, and six of the city's seven major dailies (exception: the Daily News) omitted any racial description of the muggers. But then some of the U.N.'s Asian and African delegates began murmuring that brown-skinned Ambassador Shaha had been attacked because of his color. The conscientious New York Times promptly reported that both thugs were Negroes, while the Herald Tribune described one of them...
...volume ranges over the whole of Europe (with major side trips to Persia, Russia and the New World), from 1300 to 1564 A.D. There is a bit of everything in the book-politics, war, art, architecture, philosophy, commerce, science-all by way of scene-setting for the great central struggle. Durant devotes a third of the book to the forces and the men leading up to the Reformation proper-the grimly erudite Oxonian, Wyclif; the austere advance runner of Protestantism. John Huss; the peripatetic humanist. Desiderius Erasmus, who could "scarce forbear" to pray to "St. Socrates" and expressed in satire...
Burning Issue. In Tokyo, apologizing for its delay in filling orders for musical cigarette lighters that play I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire, the Japan Central Exchange Mail Order Service explained: "The factory burned down...