Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening settles with the dust of battle, a huge supply convoy comes up, like a great merchant fleet. It forms in close laager-the unprotected vehicles at the core, a ring of armored cars and tanks on the watch outside...
Toady there is no feudal system in Japan, but the ideals of samurai thrive and are deeply imbedded in the heart of every Japanese. Samuraism is the very core of their present national policy, and the Japanese believe that the prosperity and glory of their empire can only be derived from conquest this end they are ready to undergo privation and are ready to die. That is why there is no revolution in Japan and the people still cling together after four years of disastrous adventure in China...
What the cross-purpose debate proved was that the U.S. as a whole still had no central core of conviction about its place in the world that would tell it automatically at any point whether it was ready or unready to fight. It did not have a Concord Bridge of the spirit, where its own people knew it would make a stand, regardless of the difficulties, regardless of abhorrence of war. This week President Roosevelt, in his most direct speech for a long period, came closer to a direct answer to General Wood-he declared in effect that...
...Hold Moscow tenaciously; it is a symbol. But when Moscow is pressed too hard, leave it as a core of resistance, like Leningrad, and fall back to a new defense based on the Volga. If that in turn is cracked, fall back to a new Russia for which plans have long been laid, in and behind the Urals. In each step backward, balance losses of men and ground against damage inflicted on the enemy...
...There ain't agoing to be no core," said Tom Sawyer, but he was 80 years ahead of the times. The first coreless, seedless apples known to science were discovered only last year. Weighing a plump quarter-pound each, they grow on a freak tree in Mrs. Libbie Wilcox's backyard in Huntington Park, Calif...