Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of State, by the power of his position and the difficulty of pleasing everybody, to be popular. Beyond that, he is disturbed by the personal criticism and by the fact that some of his decisions have turned out worse than others, but he is not disturbed by the central attack against his evaluation of Communism. He is convinced that meaningless summit parleys tend to produce a letdown in the free world's sense of urgency. He is convinced that his policy toward the Kremlin, far from being "rigid" and "negative," is actually "flexible" and "positive," because...
...They limited their entertaining primarily to important P. & G. people, resolved never, never to go into debt-in fact refused to buy a house until they could do it without a mortgage. In due time he bought his present grey-green stucco house (known to visiting relatives as Grand Central Station) at 3478 Vista Terrace in the Hyde Park section of Cincinnati...
Wine-Soaked Roof. Although used for endless entertaining, Palladio's villas were meant for what that luxurious age considered casual living. Wide windows and huge doors opened on fine river views and prospects, tempting water gardens and statuary-decked lawns. Linking the central, porticoed mass to grounds were long colonnades on either side-a device which, whether repeated in Ireland, England or Virginia, appears to set the building harmoniously in the landscape...
TRAIN PASSENGERS in the East will start paying 5% more for tickets forthwith. ICC granted boosts to eleven Eastern roads (including the Pennsylvania and New York Central), raised coach fares from 3.7? per mile to 3.9? (v. airlines' 5.3?per mile on U.S. flights...
...Jones of Some Came Running: "I'm fully satisfied, but I hesitate to call it great, on grounds of immodesty." Actually almost all of it is as silly as its plot. The book is one vast notions counter of half-fashioned ideas on life, love and literature. Its central proposition is the trite one that no one can swim in the sea of life without the water wings of illusion. At its best, Some Came Running does reflect the cultural claustrophobia of small-town life and the personality quirks that sometimes go with it. At its frequent worst...