Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only five minutes away from the traditional downtown "core" shopping area of Portland, Lloyd Center is a consumer's cornucopia. Its more than 100 retail stores are carefully clustered in competing groups (e.g., hardware, dresses) so that bargain hunters can save shoe leather. The sculpture and mobiles of Northwestern artists dot the landscape, and no flashy advertising or jutting store signs are permitted. Lloyd's has an ice-skating rink with live music, professional offices, seven restaurants, is dominated by the new 300-room Sheraton-Portland Hotel...
...convention that had seemed doomed to dullness, and it lent drama to the appearance before the convention this week of that exclusive Republican asset, the President of the U.S., whose total record during his two terms in office will, despite Nixon's pilgrimage to New York, constitute the core of the case that the Republican Party will put before the voters between...
...happened very belatedly and only occasionally, hence more impressively. And especially of late, beyond the peculiarities, the imagery, the style puzzle, the puns, all things for which I always envy the editor-playing that instrument must be delightful-I feel that there is in the Books section a hard core, indeed the presence of almost stern literary standards...
...Half-Safe. The "sores," according to the Church doctrine, all can be traced to the Federal Government: "Private slums are spreading through the rotting core of our big cities. Our private automobiles are stalled in traffic jams, while rapid public transportation, for lack of funds, lags 20 years behind. Public education flounders. The classroom shortage has not been met. To sweeten private life, our stores display a billion bottles of deodorant; yet a modest bill to reduce the stench from our polluted public rivers was vetoed. We have cared so much about 'conspicuous consumption' that our lives...
...gang of Red-led picketers charged into the Piazza de Ferrari. Genoa's celere (riot police) were waiting for them. They circled around the rioters in jeeps like Indians around a wagon train, clipping heads with their stout billies and gradually narrowing the crowd down to a hard core. Special riot trucks doused the demonstrators with automatic hoses...