Word: cores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with success. Let its policies turn hard, and critics regard its harshness with awe; let Communist policy turn soft, and critics shudder even more at the potentialities of its seductive powers. Let its membership fall, and critics are ready to believe Russian explanations that they really want only hard-core members. Sometimes the fear of becoming complacent leads critics to refuse to face the facts, if those facts appear unfavorable to the Communists. Last week the anti-Communist New Leader magazine issued a special supplement, Communism's Postwar Decade, compiled by Russian-born Simon Wolin, a specialist on Soviet...
Perry Como is so relaxed that he sometimes gives the impression of being made of sponge rubber with a core of Seconal. His eye is soft, his movements languid, his voice soothing. He views the world as being peopled exclusively by "nice guys." Once he applied that label to a famed middleweight boxer he had met. A friend pointed out that the pug had recently gone to jail for kicking his pregnant wife in the abdomen. Perry looked momentarily unhappy, then suggested: "Maybe it was a case of mistaken identity...
Varsity squash coach Jack Barnaby this year has both a great intercollegiate competitor and a solid core of players to back...
...organizational core of the Athenaeum dissolved soon after its formation because there was no way of assuring annual leadership--during the Fall of '53 it was difficult to tell who was running what. The new parliament, organized with club support, seems strongest in this respect...
Among the gauds and gods of sinful Babylon, the young and earnest Isaiah is a prophet without honor or glamour. Beaten and spit upon, the visionary nonetheless convinces a hard core of the faithful that Babylon will be overthrown and the Jews restored to their ancient homeland. At novel's end, the first of the Jews are on the homeward march. Occasionally moving in his hours of trial, Asch's man of God often seems less the eloquent, God-intoxicated psalm-singer of the great Biblical text ("Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion . . .") than a bearded...