Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ultimatum. To back up Kadar's stand Soviet Major General Grubennyik said that a further 20 Soviet divisions, comprising 200,000 men, were entering Hungary. Kadar assured the workers' councils that, once the strike had ended, the Red army would withdraw. No one trusted Kadar, but the Central Workers' Committee of Budapest, after a stormy debate at the Fisvek Club, agreed to try him out, reserving the right to strike again if he failed in his promise. The question was whether the workers, like the miners, who threatened to flood the pits rather than accept Kadar, would...
...central situation-two worldly, hard-up people in love and secretly engaged, a doomed young heiress who is a friend of the girl's and in love with the man, the girl's idea that the man make the heiress happy by marrying her and simultaneously ensure their own happiness by becoming her heir-clearly lends itself to simple stage drama. But such a central situation comes only in very small or very large sizes; it can only succeed as something trashy or something tremendous. To tell the story in the theater, on James's own terms...
...snakes. Overhead the pelicans circled by the hundreds, diving occasionally to scoop up a flopping fish. Scientists M. Lefevre and A. Bouchardeau hurried back to their base camp to report that for the first time since 1873 the waters were running in the Bahr el Ghazal, outlet of Central Africa's fabled Lake Chad...
...Moses, and Anne Baxter, the princess, unquestionably make a handsome couple, their embraces shed no light on the problem of how Moses, portrayed as on the threshold of the Egyptian throne, becomes a prophet and the deliverer of an enslaved race. Like the spectacle, the romance only obscures the central problem of the story...
...parking space for every five College students has been provided for in a huge underground parking lot. These spaces will be rented by the University for a nominal fee. Massachusetts Avenue, according to the plans, will be closed to all traffic except buses. Mt. Auburn St. will become the central artery...