Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those bases would have to be within at least 2,000 miles of the objective, declared Army Secretary Kenneth Royall. "Even from any of the Atlantic island nations or from Japan or Alaska, frequent and intensive strategic bombing could touch only fragmentary parts of central Eurasia," he maintained...
...meeting called by the Central Committee, Shostakovich and Khachaturian (among others) had dutifully flayed themselves. But Izvestia hadn't found the act convincing. They admitted their mistakes, said Izvestia, but "their halfway, insufficiently self-critical statements naturally did not satisfy." There was nothing halfway in what the Politburo's Andrei Zhdanov told them...
When gunfire began crackling in Costa Rica's southern mountains two weeks ago, Latin Americans labeled the uprising another small-scale civil war. Last week they knew better. What had started as a purely local conflict between rival political factions threatened to involve all Central America...
Loneliness Is Suspect. Author Gorer's central theme is that Americans are haunted by a dread of loneliness and isolation: "The absence of doors in all but the most private parts of most houses, the wedged-open doors of offices and studies, the shared bedrooms in colleges and boarding houses, the innumerable clubs and fraternal and patriotic associations, professional organizations, and conventions, the club cars on trains, the numberless opportunities and facilities given for casual conversation, the radio piped into every hotel bedroom, into many railway cars and automobiles, left on incessantly in the house.... Americans, psychiatrists as well...
...dining hall has its good and bad points. Admittedly the least attractive of the House eating rooms, it is nevertheless not far removed from the central kitchen in Kirkland, and is justly famed for above average service...