Word: cores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Architect of this victory was General Wang Yao-wu, a peppery, 40-year-old Shantung man. Stocky, muscular and tanned, like most Shantung peasants, he has a ferocious temper, a vivid and profane vocabulary. He is of the very core of the old Chinese Army, a Whampoa Academy cadet who fought his way up from platoon to army group commander. But in Hunan he used methods long neglected in China...
...Liberals will steer a middle course, offering both free enterprise and nationalization to achieve "minimum economic standards for all." The core of Liberal policy will in effect be the social-security and full-employment plans of the Party's brightest luminary, Sir William Beveridge. The election will give a historic answer to a critical question: will Britain swing to the left, like Europe, or stand pat with the conservatives, who have led it to victory in World War II? Conservatives were confident that if the election could be held soon, before wartime memories fade, Winnie would win again...
Exactly how the glass was decorated with its stylized forms was a hard-won secret which involved molds, core-casting, polishing, cutting, sanding. But the results were more than satisfactory to the public: Lalique's staggering assortment of zoological, botanical and nautical forms once decorated everything from candelabra to radiator caps. Lalique glass was a gift-shopkeeper's idea of what the world should look like...
Allied officers, probing the putrescent wound of Buchenwald, unexpectedly discovered a sound human core which promised much for the future of Germany-2,000 German prisoners who had a plan for a liberal, anti-fascist Reich...
There were little groups of men who continued to fight, who here & there formed a hard core that had to be torn apart. But actually the phase of the "pockets" seemed to be ending before it had well begun. The Wehrmacht was through. This was its death rattle...