Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blowing brass bands, the lofty pomp and the great sweep of social events never succeeded in drowning out. nor even interrupting, the central purpose of Saud's visit: high-stakes diplomacy...
...past month the Kremlin leaders have been stumping their vast country like politicians. Khrushchev addressed a mass meeting in Tashkent, Bulganin talked in Stalinabad. Mikoyan in Ashkhabad (significantly all in Moslem areas of Soviet Central Asia). Molotov was haranguing central Russia, Malenkov speechmaking near the Urals and Kaganovich in Siberia. Wherever they went, they conferred orders and decorations, talked informally with party organizers and worthy workers. This was political fence-mending, Russian style...
...stonily in a front row. After all, he himself has recently been pulling away from the Americans. His lieutenants are distressed by Adenauer's recent electioneering demands for a ban on the H-bomb and a closer look at the Soviet promise to pull troops out of Central Europe. But none dared tell der Alte so to his face. Irritated by their timid, roundabout hinting, Adenauer refused to have anything to do with their debate...
Frye is a leading American authority on the history and language of Iran and has done research work there. During his travels he collected dialects, folk songs and dances of the central deserts on tape and film. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1939 and continued his Oriental studies at Princeton, Harvard, and the University of London...
...meantime, the University narrowly averted a strike of dining hall employees who felt their culinary efforts were unappreciated, and students continued their persistent complaints that Central Kitchen fare was sub-standard...