Word: central
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jetliner, shuttle plane and helicopter, to the mountainous island in the sunny Ionian Sea. From Holland an elaborate airlift brought in mountains of tulips, and lemon buds to be woven into garlands for the bridal pair. From the mainland came Father Polykarpos Athanassion, pastor of the Kapnikarea Church in central Athens. Angelo of Athens descended on the isle to attend to the world's most closely scrutinized coiffure. Bouzouki bandsmen were on hand to play the haunting melodies so dear to the bridegroom's heart. Argosies of viands and wines were lightered in and unloaded while the white-hulled honeymoon...
...year-old boys who had just hitchhiked in from Ohio had no place to go at all. They asked Mel for 20 cents to take the MBTA to Central Square and look there. "We don't know what we're doing here," said the smaller one. "We really wanted to go to California." He added that they planned to start earning money right away. "There's never too many people dealing in dope...
...past, too, there was bitter friction among the racial minorities in California's central valley. If the Mexican-American was not as good as the white man, Munoz explains, at least he felt better than the black. But when the Farm Workers Union launched its attack on the growers--the core of Anglo economic power in central California--and when the union won several significant victories, the Mexican-Americans began to see their fight as a part of a larger struggle of the rich against the poor. "Now I know I'm a black man, too," says Munoz...
...while, efficient Nixon press workers had been herding stragglers out of the central aisle of the rally room. And with a sudden cry from Volpe ("Ladies and gentlemen, the next President of the United States,") Richard M. Nixon made his entrance...
...children. Frustrated by the intractability of the present system, ghettoes have concluded that the only way to insure that their children are educated is to do it themselves--to remake the system by putting all the power in community hands. Allowing the union to continue negotiating contracts with a central board would leave communities no leverage over teacher practices--which are, after all, most of what happens in a school...