Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that had Stalin remained at the helm for another several months, Comrades Molotov and Mikoyan would probably have not delivered any speeches at this Congress. Stalin evidently had plans to finish off the old members of the Politburo. "Comrades! In order not to repeat errors of the past, the Central Committee has declared itself resolutely against the cult of the individual . . . We cannot let this matter get out of the party, especially not to the press. We should not give ammunition to the enemy; we should not wash our dirty linen before their eyes...
After War: Joined Central Committee's Department of Propaganda and Agitation, lectured on agriculture, published "The Great Soviet People" (1947), an attack on the Marshall Plan ("which deprives many a European country of sovereignty and transforms them into appendages of the monolithic capitalism of America"), claimed Russian scientists had been ahead of Lavoisier, Marconi and Edison in scientific discoveries...
Five months later elected to six-man Secretariat of Central Committee (whose first secretary is Khrushchev). He gave keynote speeches, began to appear with the Big Boys at embassy parties and to find his portrait raised at public functions...
...prosperity brought the practical men back, and the nation's band of intellectuals seemed to be tuning up for another song of despair. While Joe McCarthy was running amuck, a few did lose their heads, but the McCarthy flurry only tended to obscure one central fact. Far from repeating the attitudes of the '205, the American intellectual stayed at home and even found himself feeling at home. His perennial problem has been to reconcile himself to a society that has always refused to accord him-or anyone else-the special regard given his European counterpart. "This," says Chairman...
...U.M.W. hospitals in West Virginia, Virginia, and Kentucky are among the most advanced to be found anywhere in the U.S. Built for the low cost of $16,000 per bed, the hospitals were designed for maximum efficiency, minimum operating cost. Each "chain-store" hospital is laid out around a central service core, from which food and drugs move by assembly belt and dumb-waiter to dispatch stations on every floor. A centralized administration and service center at Williamson, W. Va. will keep the books and do the housekeeping, e.g., maintenance, filling of prescriptions, laundry, for the whole system. Thus...