Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...core of the estimate was a report submitted by a committee of scientific advisers headed by Physicist Hans Bethe and based on air scoops from the fallout of Soviet test shots, on seismographic recordings and on analyses of heat, sound and light effects. Added to the Bethe report were findings compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Atomic Energy Commission, Pentagon intelligence units and the President's own national security advisers. The evidence was overwhelming, leading to the conclusion that the Russians have made giant strides in the field of strategic thermonuclear weaponry, that they are rapidly catching...
...daily ration of a handful of maize, they dart stealthily from corner to corner, searching grimly for a target. After four days of fighting, the pickings are slim, for their proudest boast is that not a single U.N. soldier is to be seen in the city's core today...
...soldiers: 1) part-time fighters based on the villages, who work as farmers during the day, are available for emergencies at night; 2) half-time forces, who number up to 200 men in each district, often alternate work in the fields with periods of combat; 3) the hard-core regulars, who are well-trained, highly disciplined and receive full...
That brought the threat of drastic federal action, and a detachment of U.S. deputy marshals began assembling in New Orleans. But Attorney General Robert Kennedy called McComb from Washington, got Mayor Charles H. Douglas' promise to keep order. Thus, when the second group of CORE riders arrived in McComb, 15 cops, the sheriff and nine Pike County deputies were at the depot. They picked up four troublemakers who attacked visiting newsmen (including TIME's Atlanta Bureau Chief Simmons Fentress), protected the CORE riders until an afternoon bus took them back to New Orleans...
...Christianity has shrunk until it has become little more than "a support to our weakness, companion to our loneliness, counselor to our neuroticisms, and heavenly confirmer of our national purpose." What is needed is an all-encompassing Christian vision-"truer, vaster and tougher than the Marxist vision," with a core of spirituality illuminating "economics, politics, and all other areas of human affairs...