Word: core
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Perhaps Jordan was prophetic in predicting that more emphasis on recruiting would result from a spring practice ban, and perhaps his statements penetrate to the core of the much-criticized recruiting violations in the Ivy League. His remarks represent one of the strong oppositional arguments in the controversy over the Ivy spring practice...
...member can do it alone; for each man who arms the bomb, regulations require that another must be in attendance and watching closely. Knobs must be turned, safety seals broken, keys inserted and turned to close a series of detonator circuits embedded in the TNT that activates the nuclear core on impact...
...misanthrope, Brecht vented his derisive humor, the black comedy that links his work with Ben Jonson's Volpone and Melville's The Confidence Man. But Brecht sometimes seems to be laughing to keep from crying. As with most cynics, his hard words clustered around a soft core of pity. He was plagued by the defeat of goodness in the world-one of the things Brecht naively expected of Communism was a trade unionism of the good, a method for arming goodness with power-and in the majority of his works he returns to images of goodness and vulnerability...
...Senator Barry Goldwater demurred. Said Goldwater, who has a greater following in the South than any other Republican: "We have literally bent over backwards to attract the Negro vote, but they don't vote for us." Lamented one G.O.P. leader: "We've got to find a hard-core issue to fight the Democrats...
...were solicited, and David Riesman submitted a proposal that was to haunt discussions of the Freshman year: fifty members of the seminar group he was organizing would live in a single dorm (what he would do with his Cliffies never became clear) and eat their meals together, taking a core of courses together. The Advanced Standing Committee was decidedly not interested...