Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last September, in California's Central Valley, Candidate Harry Truman made his political advisers wince with an off-the-cuff attack on hard-shelled Republican Congressman Bertrand W. Gearhart. Said Harry Truman: "You have got a terrible Congressman here. He has done everything he possibly could do to cut the throats of the farmer and the laboring man." Some of his aides, remembering the lesson of F.D.R.'s purge, argued that personal attacks often boomeranged in favor of the target. But wherever he went, Harry Truman never ceased to "pour it on" Republican members of the 80th Congress...
...same gag, turned now against the Communist big shots, had been chortled over many times in Central Europe in the early part of this century, when it was told to describe the future of emigrants to the capitalistic...
...together, had no illusions about his chances in a Communist-dominated coalition. Last week he conferred in Nanking with his top generals: Fu Tso-yi, whom he gave a completely free hand in the north, Chang Chih-chung, from the far northwest, and Pai Chung-hsi, from Hankow in Central China...
...Nanking and the Yangtze Valley, now threatened by 185,000 Communist troops under General Chen Yi. As one minister put it: "Manchuria is a limb that has been amputated. The body can live, despite amputation. North China is another limb, and even that may be sacrificed. But Central China is the Nationalist heart-and if the heart is pierced the body dies...
...week ago, a large proportion of the undergraduates who live at Houses fed by the Kirkland central kitchen were struck down by dysentery. The victims rose as a man and demanded that something be done. Immediately, the University Sanitation Office offered a two-point program to halt further outbreaks. The first part of this program is `1unenforcable; the second is no preventive...