Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawmakers, journalists. Far more would have to be decided than the fate of eleven sworn and cynical enemies of U.S. democracy. Enemies though they were, they had forced U.S. democracy to make a worried examination of itself. Men asked: Wasn't the very trial a violation of the basic rights of U.S. citizens...
With varying degrees of exasperation and bitterness, the Navy's angry men pounded away last week at an astonishing variety of targets-the atomic bomb, the Air Force, strategic bombing, the National Defense Department, the basic U.S. war plan. In the klieg-lighted clamor of the House Armed Services Committee room, officer after officer took the stand. Some fired off a few wild shots...
...revised program now runs, the student starts out with the basic courses in medicine, studying anatomy, bacteriology, and pharmacology, and learns how to spot general diseases that first show symptoms in the month...
After the two year period of basic medicine is over, the embryonic dentists adjourn to their own class and clinic to complete the course which will give them a Doctorate of Dental Medicine...
Significant in the trial, according to Polk, is the fact that "No one in the courtroom was in a position to question the basic premise of the trial--that the Communists had killed George Polk...