Word: centralizes
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Samuel Holloway Bowers is a Klan leader right out of central casting. One of his grandfathers was a wealthy Louisiana planter; another was Eaton J. Bowers, a Mississippi Congressman from 1903 to 1911. But as Imperial Wizard of the Klan in Mississippi, Bowers compiled an unequaled record of murder and mayhem. Klan experts suspect him of orchestrating more than 300 bombings, assaults and arsons, plus nine murders. He served six years in prison for conspiracy in connection with the deaths of Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney, the civil rights workers whose killings were depicted in the movie Mississippi...
Hunt said Azru had never before visited theHarvard campus. He came on the joint invitation ofthe Central American Project and the DavidRockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...
...Central American Project is a three-yearpolicy advising project about economic integrationand sustainable development in Central America,"Tirana said...
...even hate Lou, whose presence is central to the book even though he abandoned Billie. He had been aware of what would eventually happen to Billie at the time of their marriage, but then, "when she was still on the cane, she had a face like the dimensions of a crystal, all chiseled with wisdom, smarts, heartache, all beautiful like a flock of birds scared up off the cove, all beautiful like the sound of cellos..." he had thought himself equal to the task of caring for her as she deteriorated. After he forfeits his well-loved...
...laughable oddities. In one particularly comical description, the author attempts to emphasize the fact that consciousness "consists of information no less than a person who consumes large amounts of food can be said to consist of food." What follows is a discussion that employs hot dogs as its central motif; the paragraph ends with Norretranders asserting, "Consciousness does not consist of hot dogs but consists of hot dogs that have been apprehended. That is far less complex." Even if such an example does detract from the author's previously-established scientific authority, is nevertheless inspires a welcome bit of comic...