Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than ten years. "My father," he recalls, "wanted me to be president-much to the displeasure of a lot of people. I was scared." But candid, headstrong young Grace was not so frightened that he failed to see his company needed refurbishing. To beef up Grace's diminishing core of top executives, he personally set about hiring topflight new executives from Montgomery Ward, Coca-Cola and Jersey Standard. Simultaneously, he set up a statistical study division to find ways of overhauling Grace's traditional operations and to seek out new enterprises that would reduce the company...
...definition of humor is that to be really funny a joke, a story, a comic routine must make an observation on an existing situation, not the myth that we've come to know the situation by. for me the quality of the humor lies in its closeness to the core of the situation on which it is making a comment. The best humor has always had the ability to cut through the carefully constructed cliches we have built around ourselves. We've had in this country a number of deft practitioners of the art. Twain, Lardan Benchley, Thurber...
Burke complains that there are already "more restrictions on HSA than on any other living organization." The Agencies, he says, are not permitted to compete with Harvard Square businesses or with the "central core organs" of student publications...
Havana announced a new 25-man directorate for the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations, the party that runs the country. Ten of the 25 are hard-core Communists. Nobody got any titles, but the order of the list indicated the pecking order. At the top. at least for now. was Fidel Castro and the rest of his original quartet-Brother Raul. Che Guevara and Puppet President Osvaldo Dorticos. Next on the list: Bias Roca. the boss of Cuba's Communist Party...
...different ages of a fabricated Updike, the kind of plastic twin brother that Proustians invent when they want to probe their own insides without disturbing the machinery. The trouble is that Author Updike does not really seem interested in exploring time and soul, but merely in finding some minimal core to be crusted with his magnificent words. This dedicated 29-year-old man of letters says very little, and says it very well...