Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inch by inch, with the glacierlike superiority of sheer mass, the Jap forced his way south on Bataan Peninsula. Before him the last big core of resistance in Luzon stood like a granite cliff of valor. The edges of the glacier crumbled, but mass enough to move mountains seemed to be behind...
Induction currents, engineers are finding, provide a quick, simple, easily controlled way of heating or melting metals and of concocting alloys. An induction furnace is simple-it is merely a transformer whose core (or "secondary") is replaced by the metal "charge" to be heated. The coiled wires surrounding the charge carry alternating current, usually of high frequency-changing the direction of its flow not 60 times a second (as in ordinary household AC) but several thousand times a second. As the secondary current induced in the metal charge stabs back & forth, the metal's resistance creates great heat...
...dead officer from one of the midget submarines destroyed at Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy found the other half of its two-man crew still tightly wedged in the ship's bowels. Unable to scoop it out conveniently, the Navy sliced a 15-foot after-section from the core of the sub and, with full Naval honors, laid the makeshift coffin to rest in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard...
...strongholds of Western Europe. In 1941 he conquered Greece and Crete-and Libya for a time. But in 1941 he tackled Russia, failed for the first time to conquer promptly and instead involved Germany in an exhausting war-a war whose strain has shaken Germany to the core and seriously undermined her chances for ultimate victory...
...core maker and molder was a policeman...