Word: core
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assistant, bookkeeper, language teacher, corset salesman), took on Western airs and a Western wife. She was Ivy Low, radical daughter of an English writer. He came to admire the works of Henry James, Jane Austen, Beethoven and Bach; he took up contract bridge. But Litvinoff remained Bolshevik to the core-a blunt, opportunistic, skeptical revolutionary, with a keen, mousetrap kind of mind that was wired always to orders from home...
...talk criticizing the presidents' proposals, Jordan said, "I myself question some of their proposals. I see no point, for instance, in abolishing spring practice periods for various sports. This certainly is not the core of the problem...
...grenades 250 yds., sent tracers pinging off a tank at 400 yds. without a miss. In target contests, the new .30-cals. poured out fire twice as fast and just as accurately as the Army's standard 30-cal. M-1 Garand rifle. At 100 yds., their steel-core slugs plowed through half-inch armor plate; at 1,200 yds. they riddled a steel helmet; at 2,000 yds. they ripped through six inches of wooden planking. Fitted with 20-shot clips, the new automatic rifles could rattle off their entire magazines in less than two seconds. When...
...core of the West, the moral climate was foggy. Scandal chased scandal across the year's headlines. Senator Estes Kefauver revived the Middle Ages morality play, on television. Kefauver's reluctant mummers were followed by basketball players who rarely threw games-just points, and West Pointers who were taught a rigid code of honor which did not seem to apply when the football squad took academic examinations...
...bandit (Toshiro Mifune) is an unforgettable animal figure, grunting, sweating, swatting at flies that constantly light on his half-naked body, exploding in hyena-like laughter of scorn and triumph. But, more than a violent story, the film is a harsh study of universal drives stripped down to the core: lust, fear, selfishness, pride, hatred, vanity, cruelty. The woodcutter's version of the crime lays bare the meanness of man with Swiftian bitterness and contempt...