Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic idea of Regional Studies I, Fairbank has said, is to immerse the student in the language, culture, and problems of China so thoroughly that a knowledge of the whole civilization, rather than civilization taken from a number of separate aspects, is the end result...
...real people with real passions and lasts and needs, "just like everybody else." His characters, however, actually are rather removed from normality, and the passions and lasts carried to a point where the communist leaders resemble potential rapists. When not engaged in love matters, they go over the whole basic question of which has more democracy, capitalism or communism, and sound more like walking pamphlets than people...
...some degree, this strategy was basic in the United States' proposal for voluntary modification of the veto power. This country, with support from Britain and China, suggested that the large powers attempt to reconcile their differences privately before issues reached United Nations Security Council for a public showdown
During the war, Dr. Stanley worked on vaccines to use against influenza and Japanese encephalitis. (He handled the deadly encephalitis virus himself, rarely letting others touch it.) Now he is back at basic virus research, trying to find out how these living-dead things reproduce. There, he believes, lies the secret of life...
...Odell's success is, surprisingly enough, what football fans have labeled "the Odell system." Although this system begins with a basic "T", Odell has decorated it with so many fripperies of his own design that it may be called...