Word: bedrock
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...That bedrock contention of the cold war simply does not stand up these days. Insofar as the Kremlin still calls the tune, it is sounding retreat. In the past year the U.S.S.R. has removed its army from Afghanistan, prevailed on Viet Nam to withdraw its troops from Cambodia, and helped begin extricating the Cubans from Angola...
Bruce Springsteen: The River (Columbia, 1980). Born in the U.S.A. was the record that made the Boss a legend, but the bleak majesty of this two-LP set shows the bedrock of his talent...
Should the gray wolf, today an endangered species in most of the U.S., be re-established in Yellowstone? An old stockman at a meeting at Laramie, Wyo., shakes with rage at the notion; the idea is like reintroducing smallpox. But to wolf partisans, the bedrock argument is a brooding, circular truth: without wolves, there are no wolves. These complex, mysterious animals are their own justification. Beyond that, biologists see predators as balance wheels in ecosystems. No wolves mean too many elk, which is what Yellowstone has now, starving by the thousands in winter die-offs...
...Francisco's high-rise buildings, many constructed in the past 20 years, proved to be among the safest havens. Built to strict standards adopted after the 1971 San Fernando tremor, the buildings bent rather than snapped as the quake rippled through the bedrock. Not one of them suffered major damage...
...from a George Romero epic, specters from the boneyard of the pop psyche thirsting for a transfusion of celebrity. Now the boys have regrouped and regroomed; better care is being taken all around, and light is being made of age, of gossip, of old reputation. Charlie Watts, the Stones bedrock drummer, who was never one of the group's wilder revelers, looked momentarily startled the other day when a visiting writer extended a hand in greeting. "Sorry," he said, recovering. "I thought you were going to take my pulse...