Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They pledged there would be no recriminations over spilt milk on either side and Eisenhower called British-American friendship the core of any free world alliance...
...other parts of the world. All that ended in the wreckage of Suez, and the U.S. has moved to fill the Middle East "power deficit" (the State Department avoids the word "vacuum" as offensive to Arab nationalist pride). The new U.S. policy, of which the Eisenhower Doctrine is the core, is by far the most important extension of foreign policy enunciated by the present Administration. In one sense, what Ben-Gurion accepted last week was worth more than what Dulles had suggested back on Feb. 11. What had begun as another several-sided statement by a Secretary of State...
...threading his way between the excessive views of opposing factions at home and abroad. "We are opening windows to both sides, so to speak," Kishi has said of Japan's relations with East and West, " instead of keeping one side closed as before." A Japanese patriot to the core, he is regarded as more conservative and more pro-American than Ishibashi...
...reactor is housed in a dome-roofed steel building whose purpose is to keep radioactive matter from escaping into the air in the unlikely event of an explosion. Its nuclear core, enclosed in a thick lead and concrete shield, contains fuel elements whose active material is natural uranium and uranium slightly enriched with fissionable U-235. Among the fuel elements circulates ordinary water, which acts both as moderator (to slow neutrons down) and as a heat-absorbing agent...
Around this core, however, the play is built in a fairly routine way. Except for frequent trips in and out of a comfortable jail, the plot does not take the hero far. Nor need it. But the playwright might have steered clear of at least some of his many stock situations, which compete with abundant sets of uninspired lines in what seems to be a race for expectability. Even love rears its precious little head to add a tired touch of creeping sentimentality. And, regrettably, the author has felt satisfied with stocking the stage with a cast of cliches...