Word: core
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France is the weakest link in the West's European defense line. The Korean war has made no difference whatever in the French attitude. Despite a lot of talk about defense,* France is virtually defenseless-both against Russian attack from the outside and against the solidly organized core of Communist fifth columnists on the inside...
...original "hard core" recommendation of the military chiefs would have bought twelve divisions, 420 combat ships including 16 major carriers, a Marine Corps of 98,000. It would also have bought the 70 air groups recommended by the President's own air policy (Finletter) commission, a congressional committee, and by the House three times, resoundingly...
...farmers began crying in earnest for "equality for agriculture" (parity), demanding that Government guarantee farm prices to keep the farmers' purchasing power on a par with the rest of the U.S. They argued, and correctly, that if farm markets were sick, then the U.S. was unhealthy at its core. They did not get parity written into law until after the New Deal moved in with its valise full of devices to repeal the law of supply & demand. That was the day of Henry Agard Wallace's "planned scarcity," which killed little pigs and plowed under cotton...
...Barrio remained the receiving station, and the Puerto Rican core, This is the noisome, teeming squalor that greets the hopeful immigrant seeking the promised land...
...That was the core of Jesus' teaching," said Dr. Wriston, and there was just as much moral pressure on Christ as on the modern preacher to concentrate on social and political reforms. The Jews of the New Testament were intensely political, white-hot nationalists. Under occupation by a foreign power and burning for liberation from Rome, they looked for a leader to bring them salvation in practical, tangible terms...