Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With bottomless patience the Taylor panel had been trying all week to cut through the murk of charges and counter-charges and down to the core facts of the strike. But they got little help from either Steelworker President Dave McDonald or Steel Industry Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper. With nearly 90% of the nation's steelmaking capacity idled since mid-July, with layoffs spreading rapidly through the economy as manufacturers shut down for lack of steel (see BUSINESS), McDonald kept spouting purple rhetoric, Cooper kept spouting dun-grey generalities. Said Chairman Taylor at one of the sessions...
...civilised man or woman who cannot win some enjoyment from this book," wrote Havelock Ellis about Casanova's Memoirs, "there must be something unwholesome and abnormal-something corrupt at the core." Writing in the Victorian era, Scientist Ellis (Psychology of Sex) idolized Casanova as a free spirit, a man who had the courage to live life fully, and as a shining example of "adjustment"-for Casanova adapted himself so easily to his own desires. Yet there may be more truth in Ellis' exaggerated view than in the more conventional notion expressed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which complains that...
This year D'Costa hopes to add 35 new members to the ten returning students, who now form the Club's core. With a larger membership, fixed expenses can be spread more thinly, and experience has shown that around 45 members will keep both planes fully scheduled on good flying days...
Rising interest in rugby during the past two years has this fall produced what may be the strongest team ever to don the Crimson stripes. Combining a hard core of returning veterans with new young talent, the squad shows promise of being "considerably better" than last spring's powerful but unlucky fifteen, vice-President Warren Young said last night...
...Africans, were truly uncommitted. There were satellite representatives ready to engage in reasonable discussion, despite a careful prior selection of delegates which seemed to divide most of the European delegations into three groups--athletes, performers, and party members. And some acted as hatchet men for the Russians, the hard core East Germans for example, who were given control of the seminar programs far in advance, and the more impromptu "goon squad" tasks of removing unfriendly posters...