Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gentlemen, it is either-or. Either you agree that a criminal should have this right ... or you vote for this sound and basic principle of enduring justice and plain common sense...
...Stokes had raised a basic issue, and come up against another one. Thousands of people were obviously interested in what well-advertised columnists like Tom Stokes had to say. It is the editor's job to decide what his paper shall print. But an editor who bought the column but didn't print it, while keeping it from rival editors, was in effect paying Stokes and refusing to let him be heard...
...This ... is a basic paradox: one moment money is the chief inducement to produce good programs; the next, it is the chief inducement to produce bad ones. In any case, money always has the last word...
...basic scenario, one (or more) of the ancient fairy tales or legends-Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Aladdin, Babes in the Wood, Dick Whittington, Mother Goose. Sometimes these are weirdly blended: this year's Red Riding Hood features Mother Hubbard and Simple Simon. Most modern admissions to the panto-Pantheon: Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan. The eternal favorite: Cinderella...
...basic difference between the quick & the dead is ability to grow. Biologists feel that if they could understand growth, they might understand what life is. But growth in nature is complicated. Within a growing cell are hundreds, probably thousands of chemical compounds, their molecules weaving in & out, exchanging atoms and energy. Like a nation, the cell imports (absorbs), exports (excretes), and is influenced by its environment: the innumerable chemical substances in the plant or animal juices outside its frontiers...