Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle began when the Senate Military Affairs Committee read the labor-sponsored Murray-Kilgore reconversion bill. The bill's controversial core was a proposal for complete federalization of unemployment pay. It included a table of payments which ran up to $35 a week. Republicans cried: "Another WPA!" West Virginia's Senator Chapman Revercomb charged that workers in some brackets would get more pay when jobless than when employed. Eyeing the $35 top rates for workers made jobless by peace, he asked a troublesome political question: How could the U.S. pay only $20 a week to returned soldiers...
Most Frenchmen went about their business pretty much as usual. But organized partisans stirred and struck. Many towns and villages of central and southern France flew the Tricolor. The core of unrest lay in the region around Vichy; there, by Nazi decree, all civilian motor and bicycle traffic came to a halt...
...impregnating process, wood is pressed and soaked in a methylolurea solution, which is converted by the wood's acids into hard, insoluble resins. The wood becomes brittle, but this disadvantage can be partly offset by impregnating only the outer part of the wood, leaving a resilient core...
...rocket ball"-a buna-S core instead of last year's apathetic balata-may enliven hitting. A Cleveland Indian who last season batted .222 tried the ball at the Lafayette, Ind. training camp last week, promptly hit a home run. "If the cover was any tighter," reported Manager Lou Boudreau, "it would be a golf ball...
American Story was MacLeish's idea, and NBC's Inter-American University of the Air adopted it. A frankly educational venture, it is composed chiefly of quotations from the explorers and those who wrote about them in their time. This source material is the core of MacLeish's purpose. He wanted the average, unscholarly American to hear the original accounts of the men who were there, or close...