Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bloody spasm in a steady flow of terror in the Chinese schools of Singapore. Since 1951, small groups of Chinese Communist students, disguised under elaborate names (e.g., "The Chinese Middle School Students Anti-British Association for Independence"), have been gradually taking over the schools. Their leaders are a hard core of overage youth, many of whom purposely flunk examinations in order to stay in school longer. They secretly distribute anti-British propaganda, have directed a series of petitions and strikes against the proposed British school subsidy and the British draft law requiring a few extra hours of training for reserves...
...reactor being built by Westinghouse at Shippingport, Pa. will be fueled by a ten-ton core of uranium. Larger reactors of current design may use as much as 200 tons, which must be replaced every few years...
...necessary. Rockwell Film Studios provided the bare stage. But if the Poets found that elaborate staging could be dispensed with, they also agreed that professional direction could not. Edward Thommen was hired by the ever-growing bank account as Managing Director. He formed the center for a core of theater professionals which now includes Miss Huntington, designer William Hunt, and poet-president Lyon Phelps...
Centuries of borrowing gave Japan a reputation as a nation of agile mimics; Japanese even coined an ugly word for themselves-sarumane (monkey-imitators)-to use in candid introspective moments. But at the core there was a quality distinctly Japanese, that took or rejected, or sometimes transformed, everything foreign, from Confucius' rules of behavior to a Leica lens...
...York, like any other city, needs a religious revival," cried Billy, his long hands molding the air, his hawklike, handsome face twisted with intensity. He has always fought shy of launching one of his full-dress crusades against New York's hard core of sin, but he evidently would like to try. As he spoke to the thousand-odd who answered his "invitation" to give themselves to Christ, Billy suggested how wonderful it would be if, some time in the future, they could do the same every night for three months. "But whether we come is not material...