Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rejected a proposal binding them to concerted action in defense and foreign relations. Their union rested on like-mindedness, on "kingship and kinship," on a common heritage and a common way of doing things. It rested also-very heavily-on British control of the seas and London's central position in world commerce-of which Lloyd's was a symbol. These had been the central political and economic facts of the preceding century...
...blaze was discovered in six-family dwelling two houses away from Kirkland House at 12:20 a.m., and a resident fireman turned in the alarm. Nine pieces of equipment from the Memorial Hall and Central sq. station soon supplied three high-pressure hoses and great quantities of water as a small blaze the back stairs was quietly immolated...
...Politically, Togliatti was quite himself. In his absence, tough, spiteful Luigi Longo had run the Italian Communist Party without any of Togliatti's suave, serge-suited craftiness. Loudly, Longo had threatened insurrection, had ordered unpopular (and unsuccessful) nationwide strikes. At a closed meeting of the party's Central Committee, Togliatti last week listened to Longo defend his policy, then flatly contradicted him. Said Togliatti: "We cannot pin our hopes on a large insurrectional movement . . . Our objective is still gaining a majority by preserving all our old alliances and making new ones. Let us beware of locking ourselves...
...code. Prohibition is spreading from Madras to other parts of Hindu India where orthodoxy is not so strong. Nationwide prohibition has long been one of the main planks of the Congress Party, and the party has pushed it wherever it could. About one-seventh of Travancore, half of the Central Provinces, portions of the United Provinces and the East Punjab are experimenting with liquor bans. Both Bombay and New Delhi have control systems...
...Seminar, students and faculty alike dressed strictly for comfort. All food was imported from Switzerland and served in a large central dining room...