Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was not much heroism in the little houses which hoisted white flags in the path of the Allied columns. Yet still no white flag had been raised over the Nazi-dominated core of the German nation...
...Monty's and Simpson's men were likely to meet a hard core of defense. The Germans apparently had staked their bets on a plan to confine the British and Americans within a small perimeter of the bridgehead, were believed to have their best armored divisions in depth...
Something like this may have been in the minds of the Nazi leaders last week. It may have been the inner core of the peace feelers which, according to the week's flurry of rumors, were held out in several neutral capitals...
Except for scattered sniper pockets and a hard core of Japs holed up in three government buildings (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), Manila was finally free to face the future. General Douglas MacArthur lost no time in turning over the civil administration of the charred city-and of all liberated areas in the Philippines-to the Government of President Sergio Osmeña. In Malacanan Palace this week, MacArthur proclaimed: "You are now a liberated people. . . . On behalf of my Government, I now solemnly declare . . . the full powers under the Constitution are restored to the Commonwealth...
...nights when witch boys mount the bald eagle's back to glide over jutting stone peaks. "Dark of the Moon" captures the God-fearing earthiness of the hill people, and puts a thoroughly American legend on the stage with poetic artistry, pungent humor, and lusty music straight from the core of native balladry...