Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virginia's cultists, the Gray plan had a fatal defect: it offered local option on desegregation, and the Washington suburb of Arlington, for one, announced that it would integrate. Urged on by the hard core of his political following, Harry Byrd decreed against Virginia's white children being thus mixed in school (although many of them play unaffectedly with Negro youngsters from babyhood). At Byrd's bidding, Governor Stanley called a special legislative session and presented it with 23 bills, setting up a "defense in depth" against desegregation. As passed by the legislature, the program ensured...
Most importantly, Russia betrayed weaknesses at the core: a realization that none of its 1,500,000 satellite soldiers can be trusted; a revelation that the Soviet leaders themselves are divided, uncertain and disturbed, and may be losing control of their empire...
...Suez group's hard core of 30-odd members felt a desperate need to prove that the Egyptian invasion was or could somehow still be made a success. They were supported by some who deplored the initial assault, yet now felt that an ignominiously fast withdrawal might make things worse. Others were rankled by the painful dependence on the U.S. They grumbled of "American blackmail." Editorialized the Daily Telegraph: "Some American comment on the oil situation sounded very much like a threat of economic sanctions...
...track and field, the hard core of any Olympics, the U.S. got off to an auspicious lead. High Jumper Charlie Dumas (rhymes with humus), a lanky young (19) Los Angeles Negro, slithered over the bar in a diving roll that seemed to repeal the law of gravity, set a new mark of 6 ft. 11% in. to win. He did not have to try to better his own world record...
...could serve as a laboratory for testing new educational ideas. The lecture system of large universities could be deemphasized to counter what the Fund sees as a common tendency for students to wait for "canned" learning rather than to pursue their own educations. The faculty, except for a small core of permanent members, would be largely on temporary leave from the parent insitutions, enabling both students and professors to benefit from a constant exposure to new ways of thinking and teaching...