Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field and the down-to-earth mechanisms within it typifies his outlook. For nation-forming inherently requires planning, he insists with a sideswipe at "the fluffy talk of the last 15 years which had to be sloughed off for the sake of something really important at the core." The jig isn't up: "this way they won't label me a planner and I can get my work done." People got awfully excited about a word. Gaus is a scholar alive with excitement about the thing happening...
...Atomic Energy Commission announced that plutonium, core of the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki, had, to a certain extent, been tamed. It would still be a long time before atomic energy would turn a wheel or drive a plane, but the new "fast reactor" (see SCIENCE) was a long step beyond the apocalyptic vision of Bikini...
...Everyone but a diehard Republican will say, I believe, that we started off very badly, indeed. . . . Let us face it. In the opening months of this year's session, the Republican majority in Congress, under the guidance of the party's senior leaders from hard-core Republican states, approached national issues from the old-line Republican point of view in most instances. That meant that many of them pushed for severe curbs on labor . . . for immediate wide-scale tax reduction . . . for abolition of rent control . . . and it meant that they showed a noticeable disinclination to take any immediate...
...tight-lipped Atomic Energy Commission did not tell all it knows about the new "reactor." The active substance is plutonium, which wrecked Nagasaki. This time it is under exact control. In operation since last November, the tame bomb can be throttled down until "the heat produced in the core of the reactor is no greater than that given off by a kitchen oven...
Franco Mele, one of Rome's leading night club pianists, was struck to the core by the persuasive lilt of Burrier's song, and when $35 and a carton of American cigarettes was added to the call of the muse, he made a 9 piece arrangement of "Lost Without...