Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long the nation's most respected advocate of Negro advancement, King-a Nobel Peace Prizewinner-had held himself aloof from such demagogic "Black Power" advocates as S.N.C.C.'s Stokely Carmichael and CORE's Floyd McKissick. Indeed, King once vowed never to stand on the same platform with Carmichael as long as he spouted an anti-white line. By joining the Spring Mobilization, King reneged on that vow -and possibly on the entire cause of nonviolent Negro advancement...
...Bright Core. There are other unusual features of 0237-23. The spectra of most quasars show the presence of only lighter elements, such as hydrogen, helium and silicon. The spectrum of 0237-23 shows that the expanding gas shells contain titanium and probably chromium, nickel, cobalt and iron-heavy elements never before detected in quasars...
...measurements indicate that some may be less than a light year (about six trillion miles) in diameter, mere specks in comparison with average galaxies, which contain billions of stars and are 100,000 light-years in diameter. And a new Caltech study suggests that quasars have an immensely bright core which is only a few "light days" in diameter. Yet if the quasars are as far out in space as their red shifts seem to indicate, they must emit 100 times as much light as an entire galaxy in order to appear as bright and distinct as they...
...Harvard administration has quietly indicated to the hard core players that it does not approve of poker. But when asked to stop playing in his room one student merely moved his to a different entry. "What the eye doesn't see the heart won't grieve for," he said, describing Harvard's policy. "As long as it does not interfere with our grades they don't care," he added. In spite of his confidence, a number of Senior Tutors have allegedly been on the rampage...
...dinosaur that would bring Alley Oop on the run, and she takes off a pukka colonel so vividly that the onlooker can hear his imaginary wattles flapping. But what Lynn begins by mimicking she ends by understanding; she works inward from the comic gestures to the tragic core of a character...