Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loudly sang the Army fight song and settled back to watch the cadet varsity kick off to Colgate. The game was six minutes old when the United Press slipped Ike a piece of copy on the ouster of his old wartime colleague Marshal Zhukov from the Presidium and the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Ike sent thanks to the reporter, settled back to watch Army win. Reporters had not seen Ike so cheerful and relaxed in a long time. An old Army wife explained it easily: "He's back with his own people...
...Crenchaw and Daisy Bates. Crenchaw, 74, a Baptist preacher who is president of the local N.A.A.C.P. chapter, gave himself up, was booked and released on $300 bond. Daisy Bates, president of the N.A.A.C.P.'s Arkansas branch, and front-line leader during the crisis at Little Rock's Central High School, was visiting in New York. Asked if she would return to Little Rock-and arrest-Daisy Bates seemed surprised. "That's my home," she said simply. "I live there." Thereupon she flew back, drove to the police station, was duly arrested and released on $300 bond...
Five months ago. when Nikita Khrushchev was engaged in mortal political battle with Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich, it was Marshal Georgy Zhukov who came to Khrushchev's rescue in a crucial session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Angered by this intervention, a civilian member of the committee, so the story goes, hotly demanded of Zhukov: "Have you brought your tanks with you?" Replied Zhukov: "If tanks are needed, I will lead them...
...establish personal dominance of the Soviet army was likely to find ready acceptance with Communist Party bureaucrats, ever fearful of a military coup. Khrushchev, having used the threat of Zhukov's military power to destroy his civilian rivals, was now appealing to the civilian majority of the Central Committee to help him destroy Zhukov...
...Holland, for example, an Experimenter may well find himself in a brick home very similar to a middle-class residential dwelling in the United States. But he will learn that doors to rooms are usually kept shut, as few homes have central heating. He will learn that refrigeration is not a necessity of life, and that warm milk, while he might not like it, will not poison...