Word: cores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passionate, sensual, but not in a woman's way. And she was completely flat-chested . . . When she saw a man she wanted, she took him. She'd beckon him over, and off they'd go ... And whatever she did, she remained well-bred." Russian to the core, Isabelle was prone to cries and lamentations which she often expressed in admirable prose. She explained: "Why do I prefer nomads to villagers, beggars to rich people? Aie yie yie! for me, unhappiness is a sort of spice ... I love the knout!" To Author Blanch, Isabelle Eberhardt represents the "blessed...
Mendès' plan was ingenious, but its core remained that the French would have their cake and eat it, too. France would accept no restrictions on its sovereignty, but German arms would be limited by treaty...
...eyed leader Perez Prado, self-confessed inventor of the mambo. In his dress suit and stiff shirt Prado never even blinked at the deafening brass screeches that threatened to shatter the red neon tubes framing the ceiling. Only 50-odd couples actually danced and of them only a hard core of eight couples were in full mambo frenzy. Easily the champs of the evening were a shapely blonde Boston housewife named Adele Winters and her dark-haired part ner They did dizzy mambo variations known as chases, double turns, rolls, shine breaks and triples with ripples...
...start. It was true that the can tankerous Gustavus Hinrichs of Copenhagen, dismissed as head of the School of Science because of his "hasty, angry conduct," caused a major scandal by bombarding the legislature with pamphlets attacking the university (Corruption in the University of Darkest America, Rotten to the Core, Stop That Leak!). But S.U.I. survived. Historian Benjamin Shambaugh helped make the entire state history-conscious; Paleontologist Samuel Calvin became the ranking U.S. authority on the Pleistocene age of North America; bearded Thomas H. Macbride became the "Father of Iowa Conservation"; and Geologist Bohumil Shimek won international fame...
...important matter, then they would need only a simple majority of 31 votes to establish the unimportance of the issue, the same number to put the deal over. Outside the Western Hemisphere the anti-Red China bloc could count on the votes of a hard core that includes Turkey, Greece, Thailand and Liberia, plus the votes, or abstentions, of whatever countries refuse to consider the issue "unimportant." A maneuver that would probably gather even more votes would be a procedural resolution, like one adopted last year, to postpone a head-on vote. Some countries which profess, out of fear...