Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bubble soup and stewing tongues; rows of spotless oak cutting boards hold heaps of fresh vegetables ready for processing; seven yards of jet griddle await the thousands of hot dogs sleeping for the moment beside legs of lamb, bacon, and hams in the clean coolness of mammoth refrigerators. The Central Kitchen rests like a well-bathed giant, poised to galvanize its members into action...
...years later, Harry Scott Ashmore's words came home to roost-right on his own shoulders. In his post as executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette, he stood out last week as the strong voice for principle and reason in Little Rock and a central figure in the integration crisis...
...backed his efforts to postpone desegregation by "moderate," legal means. But when Faubus switched last month from legalistic buck-passing to outright defiance, Harry Ashmore's conscience-pricking editorials (more than 40 so far) repeatedly warned of the tragic consequences. When the mobs moved into the streets around Central High School, it was to Democratic Editor Ashmore that U.S. Deputy Attorney General William P. Rogers telephoned for a precise estimate of the strength of the forces of moderation. "I told him," drawled Ashmore. "that about all our side had left was a broken-down editor, a lame-duck mayor...
...when he was in his mid-30's worked for 14 years carving the altar, which measures 45 ft. in height and 36 ft. in breadth and contains some 200 individual carved figures. The greatest labor and most consummate skill were obviously lavished on the shrine, or central panel (see color page). There at the center of the drama is the dying Virgin Mary, falling with limp hands into the anguished arms of the attending St. James. The two figures, carved from one massive block of wood, have been called "one of the most lyrical compositions of the late...
...other foreground figures, all about 10 ft. tall, almost equal the central pair. Particularized, rather than idealized, they represent a triumphant manipulation of space, in gilded robes and meticulously formed figures, transcending the stiff, hierarchic form of the early Gothic style. The aging St. Peter reads a prayer, while another apostle offers holy water, and a third blows out a candle, symbol of life. St. John, on the dying Virgin's right, stricken with sorrow, raises his cloak. The outer figures, by their startled gaze and uplifted heads, point to the next act-the Assumption of the Virgin...