Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scrupulously refused to accept campaign contributions himself, Garcia let it be known that he would accept contributions personally-or they might be given to his wife, whose financial acumen and taste in jewelry are much admired in Manila. For a long while, permission to withdraw dollar reserves from the Central Bank was granted only when accompanied by chits initialed by Garcia. During his six-month campaign, the bank's dollar reserves dropped $90 million as a result of heavy but legal withdrawals...
...Communist jungle rebels who for so long terrorized his land. Today, more than half of Malaya's 50,000 square miles have been officially declared "white," i.e., free of all terrorists. Less than 1,000 Communists are still active, mostly in the southern state of Johore and the central state of Perak. For the most part, they exist in small bands of from five to ten men who have lost contact with one another; most are short of food, and some have not heard a word from Communist Leader Chin Peng (hiding across the border in the Thailand jungles...
...long period of time, and throughout history Christians have taken pains to hasten the day-from plain torture to the gentler persuasion of the American Board of Missions to the Jews. Such efforts are a grave mistake, writes Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the C.C.A.R. Journal, a quarterly of the Central Conference of American Rabbis...
...Huxley stories in the collection bring out the spite without heat that is his peculiar intellectual climate. If there is one central virtue in his art it is that his creatures have the capacity to explain themselves: the central defect is that they have the compulsion to explain themselves away. Huxley rarely creates a character that he does not destroy...
Magnet. In Chicago, Car Thief James Reynolds led police on a wild chase that ended when he smashed into two police cars in front of the city's central police building...