Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students for Stevenson have been perhaps the most active of the clubs this term. Although the hard core of Democratic workers has been drawn from already established groups, the Students for Stevenson, with a membership of 1,000--at 25 cents a head--has proved to be the moving force behind Democratic activity in Cambridge. Theodore L. Kesselman 3L, president of the group, first co-ordinated his efforts with those of the Cambridge Stevenson-Kefauver Volunteers in a drive to register Democratic voters in Cambridge. He then obtained the co-operation of the Harvard Young Democratic Club, the Harvard Liberal...
...organizational set-up of NSA raises another set of unanswered questions. Council members are at a loss when asked about such matters as the NSA budget, salaries of student officers, and revenue from dues and other assets. Critics of the group maintain that it is run by "a tight core of Midwestern professional students;" and this claim has never been proved true or false...
...Nearly a hundred stores and buildings had been sacked and burned, and a pall of the smoke of burning loot hovered over Kowloon. Governor David ordered the first curfew in Hong Kong's history. Military forces and police moved in to mop up a fiercely resisting core of rioters, arrested 3,000 Chinese suspected of provoking or leading rioters...
Critics of NSA contend that the body is controlled from the top by a tight core of professional student legislators, and that Harvard plays a very minor role in policy decisions...
Retreat with Dignity. More personable, more genial and more subtle as he grew secure in office, Herman began to build a core of support that even old Gene had never achieved. Businessmen who financed Georgia's political campaigns liked Herman's lower corporation taxes and found his conservative views comforting. The rank-and-file voters liked his lavish spending for public works (with no taint of corruption). And after the Supreme Court decisions, even Atlanta moderates found Herman's segregation policies less offensive. So when Herman, in January 1955, turned over the governor's office...