Word: kernel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Undoubtedly this description of past and present is an exaggeration. But the characterization contains a clear Kernel of truth. In the new industrial state the initiative of America has seeped away, and in its place we are left with only fear and dependence. The spirit that pushed the American frontier ever Westward is increasingly a diminishing force in the people...
...back into China and was promptly clapped into jail by the local warlord. Often chained and sometimes yoked, he languished there for 15 months until his colleagues wangled his release. He seized the chance to write 100 poems in classical Chinese, including one verse that compared man to a kernel of rice polished white and hard by the pestle...
...Samuel Bogoch of Boston's Foundation for Research on the Nervous System taught pigeons to peck a particular button to get a kernel of corn from a machine. He found that the chemical brain reaction was not only the creation of new brain protein, but protein-sugar combinations (mucoids) as well. Until three years ago, said Dr. Bogoch, only 20% of the brain's proteins had been identified. This has now been raised to 60%, and those known are divided into 16 groups. Two of these groups show a marked, though brief, increase when a pigeon learns...
...element in a controversy composed of those elements whose social interest lies not so much in their immediate appeal, or their poignant arousal of those central emotions or basic human dignities that are evident in reading a newspaper but rather in duller things, that prompts us to submit the kernel of comment which was brought to mind by a view in print of the exhibition of certain young ladies aggressively antagonizing and hostile to their opponents in the affair who are icky...
...Peking indicated that Mao and Lin may have several additional errands for the Guards to do. But the Party has already ordered some Red Guards to help harvest the crops, and with an anticipated drop in grain production the Party may send many more out to harvest every last kernel...