Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gold Napoleon, a coin that Frenchmen traditionally buy when they become nervous about their country's currency. Suggestions that the franc be devalued* were described by Mollet as "crime and imbecility.'' Although his government faces a deficit of about $2 billion to $3 billion, the hard core of France's gold reserves ($860 million in bullion) remains untouched so far. Mollet announced that he would demand a vote of confidence (his 33rd) on his fiscal plan...
...core of good sense, however, lies behind most of the judicial alterations; the ruling that "the work of undertakers is within the exception of works of charity or necessity." shows a laudable concern for sanitation, although the court might have been expected to specify whether embalming is charitable or necessary...
...conferred directly upon the individual by stipend, lodgings, freedom from routine or required tasks, and so forth, and (2) the benefits of association with others, including men of widely different interests and activities." The Committee of Four felt that these central principles of the Trinity system should form the core of any similar program at Harvard...
...ending segregation in interstate commerce. With an inter-racial group of 15 men, he toured the Upper South, and procured $250 in a damage suit against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. There were a dozen arrests in two weeks during the trip. In 1948 he was part of a CORE group which challenged discrimination in a Greyhound Bus Co. terminal in Washington, D.C. The management closed the terminal and poured ammonia on the furniture and floor in order to make the inter-racial group leave, but, as Worthy says, "we stuck it out for a couple of hours...
...French motion picture based on the book is not likely to arouse much discussion. Despite the Beacon Hill's prominent "Adults Only" signs, there is little in the film which might corrupt youths. To be sure, a discussion of what might be called the metaphysics of sexuality forms the core of the picture, buit it is treated with such careful circumspection that the result is little more than dull...