Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Socialist Party's Central Committee in a resolution which drew only one negative vote. "Together we must break the monopoly of Christian Democracy...
...mile fence of the DEW (Distant Early Warning) line and its extensions, composed of air, sea and ground radar elements, circling the far approaches of the continent. ¶ A second warning system (the Mid-Canada line) of automatic and semiautomatic radar stations running across the wilderness of Central Canada. ¶ An intricate "interior zone" warning and control complex of offshore air and sea picket lines, continent-wide networks of radar stations, identification and interception centers, ground and air combat commands, from Labrador and British Columbia to Florida and Southern California...
...home viewers to tell the real McCoy from a trio that includes two impostors or "side men." Each of the panelists is permitted a few questions to separate the cheats from the right chap, but the liars usually put on a more convincing act than the real item or "central character," and their own occupations often make nice contrasts to the truth...
...Like Mad. Each week Fates picks his impostors from about 70 applicants ("This is a great outlet for hams"), then puts them through intensive briefings with the "central character." "We like real switches - such as the parachute salesman and the guy who sells accident insurance posing as an Empire State Building window washer, or the publisher of the Fisherman acting like the president of the Liars' Club." Side men are often asked to read up on the profession they are faking...
...York Central also wants to cut its passenger runs. "If we could eliminate our passenger trains now," said President Alfred E. Perlman last week, "our net income would be $80 million a year higher...