Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court. There could be no backing away from this position. Therefore there could not be, and there was not, any agreement, implied or stated, to delay integration in Little Rock. For his part, Orval Faubus did not promise to remove the National Guard from Little Rock's Central High School and permit Negro children to enter. But there was a general understanding that some time this week Faubus would begin withdrawing the Guard and turning law enforcement back to Little Rock authorities...
...full-dress attack by Old Stone-bottom Molotov. Playing up to a Western-minded opportunist like Tito, declared Molotov. was a betrayal of Leninist-Stalinist policies that he, as the last active co-worker of Lenin, could only condemn. It was Old Bolshevik Mikoyan who rose in the secret Central Committee session to answer that the Yugoslavs could and must be drawn back into the Soviet orbit, and to go on to indict past Russian policy-including his own trade deals-for failing to recognize and adjust to nationalist tendencies in the satellites. Molotov never recovered from the trouncing that...
...against him, Mikoyan backed the party's First Secretary and proved to have followed the right hunch. Within 48 hours Khrushchev, using his party machine in exactly the same fashion as Stalin did before him, summoned henchmen from all over the Soviet Union to a Central Committee Plenum that reversed the Presidium decision...
...passengers aboard a Jamaica Government Railway excursion train were variously weary, tipsy, sleepy and raucous. Jammed into twelve ancient wooden coaches and two freight cars, they braced themselves against the sway; some slept in the baggage racks. Then, at the top of a long downhill run in the mountainous central part of the island, the brakes failed...
...atom bomb for scientific purposes during the International Geophysical Year (1957-58). The effort got nowhere, partly because of public revulsion against all nuclear explosions, but in 1956 the British and Australian governments gave in advance the time and place of four military test shots in Australia's central desert. Seismologists in many countries were all set for the waves, and they gained new information from their highly detailed records...