Word: focal
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...brother's bicycle, he was happily unaware of the carnage downtown. It was Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963. At 10:22 that morning, four black girls had been killed by a dynamite bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. The church was a focal point of Birmingham's civil rights turmoil that year, but that unrest hadn't touched Virgil and his coal-mining family, who lived in a modest, all-black suburb and rarely even saw white people. All Virgil had on his mind that day was the money he and his brothers were...
...Harvard is going anywhere this season, the squad needs to prove it can win games against ranked opponents. So, as the women say, this weekend is a focal point...
...over and over again the wooded hilltops outside Oxford known as the Wittenham Clumps - the Nashes had moved here to avoid bombs. He uses pulsatingly vivid colors, reflecting the heat and white nights of summer, in paintings like Landscape of the Summer Solstice (1943). Under the crouching trees, the focal point is a menacing dandelion. The implicit dread is more than merely romantic - imagine a soundtrack of German bombers. Dogged for years by severe asthma, Nash died in 1946 of pneumonia, aged 57. The last painting in the show is Farewell (1944), a moment of calm after the bombing raids...
...performance began with a piece titled “Groove for Mr. Charlie,” choreographed by Adrienne Hawkins and dedicated to the soul-jazz organist Charles Earland whose music served as the piece’s focal point. The jazzy temperament motivated the quick movement of the six dancers whose unison and disunison was expertly executed...
First, an American occupation of Iraq could potentially turn into a focal point for the already high levels of anti-American sentiment across of the Middle East. America could quickly have an Iraqi “West Bank” on its hands. Terrorist extremist groups from within the region and elsewhere in the Arab world will have a tremendous new determination. And if Bush is prepared to handle its occupied territories in any way similar to the way Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has handled his, the U.S. may only be adding fuel to the fire?...