Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Sikorski died in an airplane crash at Gibraltar, Mikolajczyk, at 42, became Prime Minister of the exile government. When Moscow created the rival puppet Polish government, which is still the hard core of the provisional regime in Warsaw, Mikolajczyk shuttled across half the globe -from London to Washington to Moscow-to see on what terms the Poles of London and the Poles of Lublin could get together. He talked and chain-smoked with Joseph Stalin in the Kremlin, parleyed with the Lublin left-wingers, worked out a compromise disowned by the right-wingers in London. He resigned in November...
Sired by Failure. Poor, proud, tough and relatively small, the packinghouse union was born in 1937 of the repeated failures of the A.F. of L. and independent unions to wring concessions from the "Big Four" packers (Swift, Armour, Cudahy & Wilson). At the core of its membership are Negro/Irish, Slav and Mexican knockers, hog-splitters, blood-catchers and miscellaneous workers who do the hard, dangerous, foul-smelling labor in the huge packing plants...
...will be universally recognized that the white house in the Hollywood hills in which this Symphony was written, and which was regarded by some as an ivory tower, was just as close to the core of a world at war as the place where Picasso painted Guernica...
...that Harry S. Truman . . . is President of the United States in name only. . . . We have been robbed of our birthright and stripped of our honor because President Truman and his picked associates . . . have had neither the wit nor the courage to face their duties. . . . This group is at the core Communistic and takes its orders from Moscow. . . . Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Truman plays the piano...
Benign, balding "Prexy" MacCracken approaches the core curriculum with well-considered irreverence. "Who wants to eat the core?" he asked. "There is too much diversity in this world for students of 18 to be forced on a single diet. The bill of fare is too rich for that. ["If a woman is old enough to marry," MacCracken told an alumnae meeting, "she is old enough to decide what to study."] I am for diversity. I like to meet people who know nothing about my subject.* I can learn from them and I can tell them something. It makes conversation...