Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighth Army as a whole is greener to the desert than it used to be. Its veteran core-upward of 50,000 leathery Australians-was called back to defend its homeland...
...white by five years of war are small. China's armies are in no condition to launch even local offensives. China has shown an unbelievable capacity for suffering that stands out in bold relief when it is seen how deeply seven months of defeats have bitten into the core of American and British morale in the Far East. But in the near future China's genius, her capacity for suffering, may not be enough...
...news in Henderson's mad scene was not his wisecracks, but the clear revelation that the core of price control from now on lies in subsidies...
...ready bed and the tidy bureau drawers waiting in his House room. Visions of sweating Freshmen rummaging through trunks to find that dress shirt that just had to go at the bottom of the first drawer filled his mind, and even the heat could not melt his core of superciliousness when he stalked past the bewildered Freshman about to sign his fifth pressing contract under pressure from three burly salesmen. The last salesman to put his foot in Vag's door had left three toes on the sill; now they let him alone...
...organizing the regular reunions, building up to the twenty-fifth, when "grads first realize how old they really are," a Permanent Class Committee of six has been chosen to act as a central core...