Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slav neighbors, the Poles, the Czechs never believed in having more than one superior enemy at a time, never dreamed of going down in a romantic blaze of glory. Their national history is one long, continued search for allies. To them, foreign policy is not an appendix but the core of national policy...
...still, so grim battles have proved, a Faith. Not fanatical, it engages the one talent that could be called uniquely British: to change without fuss, to change conservatively. At its core, perhaps, is belief in man and his dignity. The effort to define the Faith continues in the life and the thought of Britain...
...Core of the month-long appeal came in a three-day period in the late third week, when Lowell House shot from $2,500 to $5,700 and the other Houses put on smaller spurts. Knight said that the drive has been "watched with great interest because of the lack of outside publicity." No jeeps, battleships, or one-fifty-five-millimeter shells were bought by College civilians--just bonds...
Actually, the core of the Foreign Policy Association report was this definition of the Pope's role in modern world affairs: "The view that the Pope is at heart a fascist and wishes to see the triumph of modern dictatorships . . . proves to be without foundation in fact. At the same time, he is not a supporter of democracy but is just what he claims to be-indifferent to political forms, accepting any Government which will meet the minimum demands of the Church...
...Iron Core. Magnitogorsk was named for a mountain which contained 275,000,000 tons of 62% pure magnetic iron ore. With the rest of the Soviet Union's Urals development, it was the iron core of Russian resistance after the Germans seized the industrial Ukraine. Today its furnaces, blooming, billet, rolling and wiredrawing mills, its machine shops and aluminum plants cover 2 7 square miles. The furnaces produce more steel than all of Russia under the Czars; and Magnitogorsk is still expanding...