Word: cores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born and their children have lost their old cultures and have not yet become integrated in U.S. life. In rooming-house districts, white-collar workers are isolated and lonely amid impersonal throngs. The number of unmarried men, socially and biologically at loose ends, increases toward a city's core. And as urbanization increases, the group control of a homogeneous society-symbolized by the U.S. back fence-disappears. Standards of group and personal behavior break down together when the anonymous city dweller has the "liberty" to drift into unconventionality and excess which are frequently the forerunners of mental crackup...
...sharpened the cleavage between the two capitals. The city and its confusion are endlessly multiplied: to faraway citizens, Washington looks and sounds like a madhouse. But the solid core has grown too: Washington now has more keen managerial talent than any other city in the world...
...Harvey Anderson knows that no mickles will make any muckle to speak of until the hard core of the U.S.'s war-production crisis is cracked. So long as no overall production tsar exists in fact as well as in name, no overall production orders will even be properly formulated, let alone carried...
...Threat. The core of the Congress resolution demanded that Britain withdraw politically from India, and threatened to use all the possible nonviolence of the people to compel Britain to withdraw. The resolution did not alter Gandhi's position that he does not wish to interfere with United Nations military forces in India (TIME, July 13). But Jawaharlal Nehru explained that nonviolence envisaged more than industrial strikes-it would be a general strike, peaceful rebellion. Nehru's thesis was simple: only Indians could organize India for war, because anybody could do anything better than the Government of India today...
...self-imposed routine of carrying out decisions. "What is required," he writes, "is a willingness and ability to take orders and instructions and to carry them out faithfully, even when you disagree." The book concludes with a clarion call for a new belief in the common man, the core of the democratic creed...