Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...event a law-minded nation such as Israel could hardly be regarded in the same light as Russia. If Egypt violates the armistice agreement, it "should be dealt with firmly by the society of nations." As he drove home his points, however, Ike rarely moved far from his central theme: "The United Nations must not fail," he said, looking directly into the cameras. "I believe that in the interests of peace the U.N. has no choice but to exert pressure upon Israel to comply with the withdrawal resolutions...
Facing the monstrous confusion of Harvard architecture, however, Dean Sert will be hard put to achieve many constructive ends. He cannot find a more central location for classrooms than the Yard. But to revamp that center would require vacating many classrooms during the period of construction. Dean Sert is called upon to perform a minor miracle. The only encouraging aspect to his job is that it is the first time Harvard has even seen fit to employ a moderately scientific method of development. We hope it is not too late...
...focal method of educating large numbers of students. While it is perfectly true that Professor X can as well speak to 1,000 students as to 100, and while educational television may allow him to lecture to half the United States, these are not solutions to the central problem. Building larger lecture halls and more Houses will permit the College to expand, but at the expense of many inestimable values of student-teacher relationships...
...last day of the Venice congress, when the delegates elected the party's new central committee by secret ballot, this hidden strength revealed itself. Of 81 central committee seats, Nenni and his followers won only 27. Unwilling to denounce the popular cause of Socialist unification in open debate, supporters of the Communist alliance had quietly sandbagged Nenni...
...feet, Nenni immediately began to drop hints that he might abandon politics and retire to his seaside villa at Formia. Coming from the Socialist Party's biggest vote getter and the idol of its rank and file, this was a potent threat. Hastily the newly elected central committee granted Nenni's demand that it endorse his Socialist unification policy and give his supporters a majority of the seats in the party secretariat...