Word: basic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There were some failures. The 81st Congress had meanly failed to liberalize D.P. legislation. It had approved six executive reorganization plans submitted by Harry Truman, but ignored the basic reforms outlined by the Hoover Commission. It had failed to authorize funds for President Truman's Point Four program for foreign investments...
...might even face some increases at her butcher's, and on her milk bill.
Quite naturally, Osmanski has installed the Chicago Bear T formation--the system under which he himself played--at Holy Cross. This means that at least half the plays are run from the basic T with a minimum of flankers and men in motion...
...basic pattern, the right halfback plunges into the center of the line, the fullback and the left half sweep wide to the left, and the T quarterback runs almost straight back for seven or eight yards...
...Afterglow. The problem, in Schlesinger's view, involves more than the Civil War alone. It "raises basic questions about the whole modern view of history ... I cannot escape the feeling that the vogue of revisionism is connected with the modern tendency to seek in optimistic sentimentalism an escape from the severe demands of moral decision...