Word: cores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mountain Birds. At that time Markos had perhaps 2,500 armed followers in bands scattered about Greece. Within a year the number had grown to 8,000. Now he has 25,000. The hard core and leadership are Communist. But the KKE (pronounced coo-coo-ay) seldom admits that it controls the guerrillas, and refers to them as a "democratic force fighting against monarcho-fascists." Last year one member of the Greek Politburo earned a sharp rebuke from his comrades by boasting that "KKE has birds which sing in the mountains...
Long before the New Testament was collected and canonized, the Communion was the core and center of the faith of the tiny Christian sect. They met to celebrate it in private houses. Outsiders were exeluded; even "catechumens" (those not yet baptized) were permitted to be present only for part of the rite. And for centuries they met as outlaws in danger of death...
...first actual test, Blumberg's new set-up recorded the extensive Philippine quake of Saturday, January 24. Only 19 minutes after the earthquake, waves began to "sign in" at the station, 35 miles north of the college, having first made their way through part of the earth's liquid core...
Plans call for an executive board made up of one member from each House, ten representatives chosen from team managers and captains, and single representatives from the CRIMSON, Glee Club, Band, WHRV and others. In addition, there will be a working core of more active-members who will rise to the executive board through competitions, which will be open to twenty sophomores each year...
...promote this guess into a well-considered theory, Dr. Brown collected information about 107 meteorites (grounded meteors). He reasoned that "all the fragments came from an exploding planet which had a molten core of nickel-iron at about 3,000° Centigrade [5,432° F.] and an internal pressure of more than 100,000 atmospheres [1,470,000 pounds per square inch...