Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smile all the time that way, your teeth get dry, and your lips stick to your teeth. How does she do it?" The whole evening was "an enormous letdown," concluded Quinn. "Nobody really has a chance to talk or mingle with any of the celebrities. Only the hard-core climbers are going to hover around Jackie or the other biggies." Sic simper, Sally...
...order, the few remaining mostly white schools in the outlying areas have exchanged students with the predominantly black schools closer to the downtown area; the aim is to increase white enrollment in those schools to at least 30%. But no whites are being bused into the city's core, where the schools are virtually all black. Hence, Detroit School Board President Cornelius Golightly, a black, calls the order "minimum tokenism," and the N.A.A.C.P. is appealing it in court...
...addition to Chase, Michaels recruited a core of writers including his own wife Rosie, 29, who had also worked for Tomlin; Michael O'Donoghue, 36, and Anne Beatts, 28, both formerly of the National Lampoon; and Herb Sargent, fiftyish, whose credits include That Was the Week That Was. Their styles are diverse. Their humor is not. Says O'Donoghue: "At some point in your life, you decide to either grow up or look like grownups. We've chosen the latter." Some critics think the show is sophomoric. Replies O'Donoghue: "Sophomoric is just the liberal word...
Said, who heads the Geological Survey of Egypt and holds a seat in the Egyptian Parliament, bases his theory on evidence he found while doing test borings for the Aswan High Dam in 1961. In some of his core samples, Said was puzzled to find a layer of alluvial (deposited by running water) sediment at a depth of 450 ft., well below the level of the modern Mediterranean Sea. Convinced that such deposits could not have been left by today's Nile, Said began looking into the possibility that they were traces of an earlier river...
...Cash's failures are more fundamental than simply lack of documentation, a propensity for making historical errors and tortured writing. It is a mistake to quantify Loeb's power in terms of the support his candidates for public office receive. Certainly there is a hard core Loeb constituency in New Hampshire. Indeed an actual Loeb party, a Republican faction, has played a key role in state politics for a long time. But the political success of reactionaries like Meldrim Thomson and Wesley Powell is only one standard with which to measure the Loeb influence. The Union Leader informs the political...