Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major Russian policy decision-a decision so important that Nikita Khrushchev felt obliged to summon four of his principal ambassadors (including ever-smiling Mikhail Menshikov, busy-bee Washington partygoer and TV performer) back to Moscow for conferences, and to call an extraordinary meeting of the 130-man Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R...
...outside Russia could be sure just what political forces were at play in last week's Central Committee meeting; they could only judge by results. But there were many tipsters, ax grinders and self-appointed experts who have long professed to know...
Governments often live to a ripe old age in Canada, but none in the nation's history had lived as long as the Liberal regime in the central prairie province of Manitoba. Last week, after 43 years, the regime at last lost a provincial election-just one year after the fall of the national Liberal government that had ruled for 22 years...
...Louvre, and Mantegna's great Crucifixion. Added to the warehouses of art confiscated during the French Revolution (including Michelangelo's marble Slaves, found in the Due de Richelieu's town house), the foreign conquests made Napoleon's Louvre the central museum for all Europe, and, incidentally, sparked a museum movement...
...taught in and known the U.S. for almost a quarter of a century, Philosopher Maritain is familiar with America's authentic face and voice; yet he remains enough of a stranger to stress truths that are overlooked or taken for granted by many Americans. Probably Maritain's central point: "[Americans are] the least materialist among the modern peoples which have attained the industrial stage...