Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ultimately, SEATO could become the hard core of a grand anti-Communist alliance of the Pacific, embracing all the nations linked to the U.S. by treaties and stretching from Korea's 38th parallel south to Australia and New Zealand...
...fight for state political power are divisions of national significance. On one side is George Craig, who is aligned with the new, progressive force of Dwight Eisenhower's brand of Republicanism. On the other side is U.S. Senator William Ezra Jenner, who stands in the core of the G.O.P. element that opposed Eisenhower before the Republican Convention in 1952, and still opposes him much of the time. Somewhere in between is U.S. Senator Homer Capehart, who has been on the Jenner team but appears to be edging toward the middle...
...this kind and character been considered except under a closed rule . . . So as an old friend to all of you, as a lover of the House of Representatives and its procedures, I ask you to vote down this amendment." Rayburn switched some 15 Democrats, failed to budge a hard core of 80; Brown's amendment lost...
...courage to be oneself." His politically gifted son rigidly practices a contrary rule: "Never bet against the house-don't be a sucker-be the house." As in his other books (The Nice American, The Center of the Stage), Novelist Sykes cleaves right to the secret core of his characters-ex-Communist literary snobs, envenomed small-town society queens, Point Four evangelists, coronary-conscious manufacturers. But this time he has also hacked a plot from political headlines, and so blunted his aptest insights...
MacLeish also praised Yale for developing a core of trained actors, and encouraging writers. More trained actors are necessary to give new plays a suitable trial, MacLeish said...