Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cried, "is the economics of bedlam." Again the dissidents were voted down. The left-wing Amalgamated Engineering Union proposed a united campaign "for the early defeat and removal of the Tory government"-surely a natural undertaking for the body that gave birth to the Labor Party and represented the core of its voting strength. But the majority of the delegates, sensing a move to wed them to the Bevanite camp, rejected even that...
...walkout touched off a flurry of speculation about the real reasons behind it. Some cynics guessed that Big Bill wanted a free hand to go raiding. A more sinister explanation was that Hutcheson planned to join up with the Mine Workers' John L. Lewis to form the core of a new labor federation (dubbed the "Phantom Phederation" in labor shoptalk). Said a member of the executive committee: "I see the fine hand of John L. Lewis in this...
...hastily written, scattered, and not fully thought through-another headlong improvisation, but another example of Taft's ability to put facts together. It was a scathing review of postwar U.S. foreign policy, which had been bold and even brilliant in flashes of desperation, but without any firm core of consistent principle or steady purpose...
...Devil Sex. Up to this point, Author Buck handles her material nicely, bringing the core of religion steadily closer to the reader. Then, suddenly, she gives out. The conclusion she wants to reach is that neither dollars nor Christian dogma can bridge the U.S.-Indian gap; there must be intermarriage between the two peoples and agreement that all religions are equally valid, equally tenable. It is sex which prevents her from putting over this conclusion properly. The old devil has hovered on the fringes all through Come, My Beloved, and when he hears the magic word "intermarriage," he hops boldly...
...fact that OSS had to be organized hastily, kept it from fulfilling this important role. The main contribution of OSS was a number of specific intelligence operations, some of them brilliantly performed, rather than as a central strategic intelligence service. It did leave with the Government a hard core of first-rate intelligence...