Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while it looked as if Johnson's ability to carry water on both shoulders might win him every honor in sight. He and the party's hard-core liberals, dominant in Texas during the early Roosevelt days, but almost voiceless during Shivers' years as governor, had agreed in advance upon the election of Temple's Byron Skelton, 51, longtime party loyalist, as national committeeman. But when Johnson tried to balance Liberal Skelton by proposing McAllen's conservative Mrs. Lloyd Bentsen Jr. as national committeewoman, he overstepped. The resurgent liberals, pointing to Beryl Bentsen...
...mountain of iron in the southern Urals was the core of the first Soviet in dustrial complex. Last year the Urals and western Siberia alone produced more pig iron than Great Britain. The magnetic mountain at Magnitogorsk has been swallowed in the furnaces, and ore now comes from mines far away. A thousand miles deeper into Siberia is the Kuznetsk basin, where it is planned to produce 80 million tons of coal a year by 1960. Around Kuznetsk, in fast-growing industrial cities -Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, and at Karaganda some way to the southwest-are new steel mills, blast furnaces...
Asserting that this important goal can be achieved only around the giant core of "labor, the farmers and the Negro people," the Communist national committee praised the presidential campaign of Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver as "beneficial in all directions." But it harshly criticized the "Johnson-Rayburn line of 'party unity' with the Dixiecrats," the "Harriman-Truman line of attacking Geneva" and the "vacillations and retreats of Adlai Stevenson." What the U.S. Communist Party must do, its committee said, is to adopt "a more independent course which influences the direction of the Democratic Party...
...that "Marilyn's sensitivity is extreme." Said Lee Strasberg, director of the Actors Studio: "She has a phenomenal degree of responsiveness [and] the greatest sensitivity." Playwright Arthur Miller says Marilyn "has a terrific instinct for the basic reality of a character or a situation. She gets to the core...
...1940s the best of his lavish literary output (about 60 novels, short stories and plays) was re-issued and re-evaluated. Though it provoked its share of cultist nonsense, the rediscovery of James placed him firmly where he had always neglectedly been, at the hard core of great American novel writing along with the other 19th century greats, Hawthorne, Melville and Mark Twain. Over and above the others, James proved to be an enlightening bridge to the greatest of 20th century writing. In his psychological probings, he prefigured Proust's monumental Remembrance of Things Past. And in his "wonder...