Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Daily Sketch. Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail-which, like most British papers, finds the West Germans too unbending toward Russia-had wondrous news to impart. In Bonn, confided the Daily Mail, Macmillan "completely won over Dr. Adenauer, to a system of step-by-step disarmament in Central Europe...
...happen," they asked, "when your husband is in prison? Where will you get your cloth when all the money is used to pay fines? Tell your men to stop being stupid." By "being stupid" the government meant joining the nationalist agitation for Nyasaland to secede from the British-inspired Central African Federation...
Completed in 1953, the Central African Federation has turned out to be one of the most unfortunate of British colonial experiments-the pasting together, mostly for worthy economic reasons, of two almost wholly black protectorates and self-governing Southern Rhodesia, whose more extreme whites want to turn the country into a miniature Union of South Africa...
...darkness fell on central Newfoundland one evening last week, two bands of men ranged along a provincial highway. Ten Mounties on foot kept a wary eye on more than 100 picketing loggers of the striking International Woodworkers of America, set on intercepting non-I.W.A. loggers. When the I.W.A. halted a sedan to threaten the four passengers in it, the Mounties radioed Grand Falls for help. More Mounties and provincial constables rushed to the scene. Police night sticks and loggers' crude clubs swung through the chilly air. Provincial Constable William J. Moss, 24, caught a blow on the head...
...made on the assumption that these dorm officials, being acquainted with the students involved, could best make an intelligent distribution of people with differing personalities and interests. However, Mrs. Alan S. Locke, head resident of Briggs Hall, called it "inefficient" not to handle the room assignments in one central place...