Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Essence. Once there was a man (so goes an ancient Taoist legend) who was so expert at judging horses that he ignored such trivialities as color and sex, looking as he did into the very essence of the beasts. Such a man, gifted with the eye for the core of reality, was Seymour?at least in the estimation of his family. His oldest surviving brother, Buddy Glass, remarks: "I haven't been able to think of anybody whom I'd care to send out to look for horses in his stead...
...story building, the tallest in Boston, the first six floors and the basement have been designated the shelter area. After a warning of a possible nuclear attack over an interoffice alert system, all Hancock personnel and non-company tenants in the building would be directed to core shelters, which have already been tested by radiation experts. A zoo-cot hospital section and operating room have been marked off, and medical supplies are stockpiled close by (16 doctors and eight nurses are always available). Two existing company restaurants carry a daily food supply; to supplement that, Hancock has stockpiled 400 cases...
...purveyors since 1876: "Today's ball and the one that Ruth hit are identical. Period." Nor has the manufacturing process in Spalding's Chicopee, Mass, factory appreciably changed. Each ball must conform to rigid specifications, set decades ago by the leagues. Its horsehide cover conceals a cork core wrapped in two layers of rubber and 490 machine-wound yards of five kinds of yarn. Even the cover must meet a fine thickness tolerance of .045 to .055 of an inch. The finished ball must weigh in (5 to 5 1/4 oz.) and measure...
...Douglas Lake in northern Michigan, a crew of limnologists (the fresh-water equivalent of oceanographers) in a boat raised core samples from the bottom and tested the oxygen content of the deep. The results, carefully evaluated in the laboratory on shore, were disturbing. At 10,000 years of age, Douglas Lake was past its prime, and slowly dying. In a few more thousand years-a mere split-second in geological time-this haunt of fishermen will be gone, with nothing but a bog to mark its grave...
...junkies, alkies, homosexuals, whores and pimps, as well as the faceless poor. Reflecting on his part in these endless, trivial transactions. Sol Nazerman, the Harlem pawnbroker, "became filled with the idea that he was building a tower of junk, struggling and draining himself to amass nothing . . . For him the core of life was there in all its reality: brutal, wretched, and grasping...