Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...significant goal: every student, regardless of his interests, is thoroughly subjected to current affairs, even if he does not always appreciate their deepest significance. Not everyone agrees exactly as to what these affairs should be. Most concur, however, that a great issue is a problem which has a "moral core as well as historical depth, meaning for the present land a projection into the future...
...German army may march alongside those of other Western European nations, but fear and hatred will be the natural and undesirable response of her former victims when they see what her new troops will look like. Even now the West German Border Patrol, core of the proposed forces, is parading around in resurrected Whermacht outfits...
Mendes-France is as anxious as anyone else that communism be met with strength. He is convinced that a strong France is vital to the interests of the free world. But he also knows that French foreign policy cannot be a brittle shell over a rotting core. For communism can breed in the rubble of economic distress as easily as it can overrun an unarmed Germany. The French premier has already begun to boost a standard of living that has revived far too slowly since the war. With a coldly realistic appraisal, he has trimmed France's foreign commitments...
...positions of power we are going into this campaign, not with a compact army but with scattered regiments. What seems not to be understood by the dolts who have usurped control of the party is that the National Committee is the catalyst of the party. But the little hard core of men close to the President ignore the organization. The symbol of this [group] has become Sherman Adams. He is anathema to the organization and its resentment centers upon him. His attitude of somewhat contemptuous flouting of the organization and its duly elected representatives has been taken as typical...
None of this means, Dr. Creer points out, that the earth's axis of revolution has changed its direction in space. More likely, it has stayed put while the thin crust of the earth has slipped around the core, carrying different parts of the surface to the cold polar regions. Dr. Creer is not sure that the crust as a whole has moved. The continents may have drifted independently. By measuring the magnetism of more ancient rocks, he hopes to answer this question...