Word: cores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Third Try. Now Taft is making his third and hardest try. The core of his 1948 organization never really disbanded, and it went to work in earnest not long after he walloped the Ohio labor leaders to win re-election as Senator...
...well-armed "People's Police." Unlike EDC, an army on paper, East Germany's army has long been a fact. Lodged in barracks throughout the Soviet zone are 65,000 Communist "policemen" (average age: 19), organized into 24 "police service commands." Each command is the hard core of a fighting division, well trained by Red army officers in the use of tanks and heavy artillery. Last week the Reds announced that they will expand the People's Police into a full-fledged national army, probably 25 divisions strong, "to defend the fatherland...
...last week Brigadier General Francis T. Dodd, commander of the U.N. prison camp on bloody Koje Island, was standing at the gate of Compound 76, talking to a group of prisoners inside, most of them hard-core Communist North Koreans. With him was one of his staff, Lieut. Colonel Wilbur Raven. As they talked, the compound gate was opened to let a work detail out. Suddenly a group of prisoners darted out, seized the two U.S. officers, and started to drag them into the barbed-wire enclosure. Raven saved himself by clinging to the gatepost until U.S. guards rushed...
...Polaroid scientists soon joined him in the initial attacks upon theory. The first problem met was exactly what kind of device they wanted. What wave-length could best aid the biologists? What did the biologists want to find? Then there was the problem of how to make it, the core of which was the apparently insurmountable difficulty of designing the lens. Gray's work came at an opportune time, for at the beginning there were many doubts...
Witch & Minster. At the core of the book is a miracle. While digging the foundation for a new Franciscan cloister, young Edwin Widowson unearths a queer, antique fist of pure gold. The friars set a guard to it, but the next night Edwin, persuaded by outlaws, filches the treasure and leaves in its place the hand of his brother, who has been hanged. "Miracle!" cry the good friars in the morning...