Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stream itself, which is generally found around 30,000 ft., sometimes blows faster than 230 m.p.h. The jet stream is not easy to keep track of; it snakes and thrashes around like a whipping rope, changing both speed and altitude. A jetliner that gets into its core may arrive at its destination hours ahead of schedule with its tanks still heavy with unburned fuel. But judging by the experience of Air Force pilots, whose jet bombers have been flying the unfamiliar highways of the upper air for years, commercial pilots will probably not find it worthwhile to try for this...
...office building needed to house UNESCO's 1,080 permanent employees, Breuer found a functional solution: a Y-shaped structure (without air conditioning) that would give maximum light and air for the 600-odd offices. The elevators, stairs and toilets were grouped in a central service core at the axis of the prongs. To cut down glare from floor-to-ceiling windows, Breuer incorporated a variety of sunshade devices (horizontal sun-louvers, vertical slabs, extended brackets holding panes of thermal glass) that varied according to the various sun conditions and enriched the façades with glittering patterns...
Robinson's piece is the description by a man, of (as yet) unrevealed age and circumstances, of his childhood in Rome. The core of the episode is the tension between two parts of the child's education for and in life: the severe intellectual discipline to which his father subjects him, and the sensuousness of his environment, Rome...
...Jinx. Joylessness begins at home for Alfred Eaton in the turn-of-the-century Pennsylvania town of Port Johnson. Alfred's brother is the apple of Papa Samuel Eaton's eye, and poor Alfred is the apple core. When the brother dies at 14, Alfred is cut off without a pennyworth of love by the steelmaster millionaire father. With old-fashioned pre-Freudian directness. Author O'Hara allows this rebuff to clue the pattern of Alfred Eaton's life. From then on, he is destined to confer his love rather than give it, to make contact...
...type of "Clubbie" interested in devoting a lot of time and money to the punching season, and Club presidents often have to scramble around to recruit members to attend the various punching functions. Of course there is still a hard core of devoted members who haunt the Clubs morning, noon, and night--but they seem to be a slowly-dying breed...