Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read the editorial on identity backwards and forwards and in the bathtub, and could find no real clue to the riddle of identity. Mr. Robinson comes out on the side of simplicity, I think, and that is praiseworthy. "...Simplicity," he says, "may be an intentional affirmation that the core of life is not a complex of enigmas but an aggregation of simple truths...
...grit to the core...
...laws be enforced by the white people of this country," cries Harry Byrd. He does not mean all the white people-or even most of them. Poll taxes and some of the nation's most restrictive registration laws hold Virginia's vote to the hard core of Byrd followers: never in history have more than 35% of Virginia's adults voted in a presidential election; Lindsay Almond was elected Governor by only 16% of the adult population; in Charlottesville (pop. 30,000), Almond's birthplace, only 466 voted in a 1955 election for the state senate...
...jobless ratio rose because unemployment did not go down as much as it should have, considering seasonal factors. Actually, much of the dip in the unemployment total came from students who gave up looking for summer jobs-a move that was discounted by seasonally adjusted figures. But the hard core of unemployed adults over 25 held at 3,241,000, close to the high June-July level...
...expropriations," meaning armed robbery; Stalin himself carried out successful heists. Moorehead evokes the strange quality of Russian life with its tone of "brittle lethargy," the Byzantine bureaucracy of the Czarist system and the paternal absolutism of the Romanovs, which was inherited by the Russian revolutionaries and became "the core of [their] mind." Finally, Moorehead stresses the importance of police socialism-the system by which police agents became party leaders and all lived in a "half world of bribery and twisted loyalties...