Word: cores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most significant event in the life of England's adolescent Labour Party was unquestionably the Russian Revolution. Immediately, instinctively, Labour moved to protect the new socialist state from the danger of extinction by the capitalist entente. The party--especially the trade unionists which formed its core--fully appreciated the vast gulf which separated the British socialist parliamentarian from the Russian Marxist revolutionary, yet it never ceased its work to ensure that Russia was given the same rights as any other state. At the same time, with a ruthless vigour, it acted to destroy communism at home...
Realizing that at Harvard the competition for Phi Beta Kappa honors is heavier than at some other colleges, the Cambridge Chapter has increased its membership so that now ten per cent of each class is elected to the Society. An elite inner core has been maintained, however, by means of the three different stages at which one can be elected...
...week Black Mac yielded 20 hard-core top EOKA leaders, four of them with prices of $14,000 on their heads (which the soldiers are ineligible to collect), 2,000 rounds of ammunition, scores of hand grenades and dozens of revolvers, half-a-dozen Thompson submachine guns and a 3.5 bazooka. The British had reason to congratulate them selves, and did. Said pink-cheeked, wax-mustached Brigadier J. A. Hopwood: "It was like a jolly big shoot, and my men acted as beaters...
...score for the movie On the Waterfront, some critics heard a new note in Bernstein's music, a curiously piercing purity that seemed to burst from a hot core of originality. Extravert Bernstein needs the outside inspiration of a theme, a script, a plot to be at his best ? which suggests that he is at his best in the musical theater. "I am the logical man," Bernstein himself has said, "to write the great American opera...
...their Hungarian stooges seemed to realize that the names of Kossuth and Petofi were dangerously charged with patriotic and nationalist sentiment. In September 2,000 young Communists crowded into the Petofi Club to hear a discussion on the Communist-controlled press. The meeting had been packed with old hard-core Communists and AVH men, but nevertheless the debate was free and furious. Janos and his friends left feeling that they had scored heavily against the system...