Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paste up small pictures of Adolf Hitler, drape the coffin of a departed comrade with the swastika banner. This situation understandably exasperates many U.S. citizens. Last week a letter from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson suggested that the U.S. Army is well aware that it has the potential core of a future fascism on its hands, that it has already taken many preventive steps lately requested by outraged civilians...
Slowly and foggily, the news of a Czechoslovak disaster trickled out from the core of Europe. Almost unnoticed by the rest of the world, the Slovaks had risen in their mountainous country, had waged war for some two months. Now, said Berlin, they had been wiped out by seven German divisions. Apparently, like the Poles in Warsaw, they had started fighting too soon...
Backing its reserve force, the Army also wants a permanent regular force (including air force) of several times the size it was before World War I. Around this professional core it hoped to be able to group 4,000,000 troops almost overnight-about the minimum the Army believes necessary if the nation is to survive...
Eight of the last ten Nobel physics awards have gone to atomic researchers. Stern's and Rabi's awards were for studies of the atom's nucleus-the core of protons and neutrons...
...Russians, in their lushest cloak-&-dagger manner, who added a touch of comic melodrama to the last days of the campaign. Izvestia, official Soviet Government newspaper, ran an article headlined: THE ELECTION OF ROOSEVELT GUARANTEED. It is said that the core of Dewey's Republican staff had "pro-Fascist, pro-German ties"; and that with campaign "failure imminent . . . Republicans in despair might resort to a big adventure." The "adventure," it said, might well be a fake last-minute assassination plot against Dewey, with the Communists, of course, blamed for it. Thundered Izvestia: "History includes a number of such insolent...