Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truth was that the civil righters themselves could not get together. Everett Dirksen's original bill (really a civil rights amendment tacked to a relatively unimportant bill) had for its core the Justice Department's Federal Referee Plan, which would provide Negroes with a safe, bully-proof opportunity to register and vote in local and national elections (see box}. Civil righters-both Republican and Democratic-agreed in principle, but they disagreed heatedly on how the principle ought to work. Flurries of amendments poured onto the floor and out of caucuses; amendments were followed with amendments to other...
...circ. 285,206), powerful and prosperous example of the U.S. provincial daily, whose voice rings commandingly at home but is rarely heard outside. The News's province embraces eight upstate New York counties, of which Buffalo (pop. 607,000), Erie County seat, is the industrial core. To the 1,642,500 inhabitants of its territory, the News speaks loudly of things they want to hear...
...sent his skis to Bromley Mountain (Vt.) Ski Pro Neil Robinson and told him to find a way to break them. Most of the time Robinson did. Two years later, Head added a plastic top and bottom and steel edges, bonded them to the aluminum and a laminated fir core under high pressure and temperature...
...after getting anonymous telephoned bomb threats. Just as inevitably, the national pressure groups arrived on the scene and helped organize the sitdowns in other Southern cities. Five days after the Greensboro sitdown began, a representative of the Congress of Racial Equality turned up in Greensboro and Durham, announced that CORE was taking over, and advised the sitters to concentrate on just one chain-Woolworth...
...commercial airlines, with a big assist from Oklahoma's Democratic Senator A. S. ("Mike") Monroney, last week won their long battle to force the Military Air Transport Service to stop competing for passengers and cargo. In the future, MATS will function only as a "hard core" carrier transporting troops, weapons and missiles for the armed forces. This policy shift will force MATS to surrender the bulk of its military and VIP Government passenger and freight business to the private airlines, which will amount to an estimated $100 million a year...