Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred percenters have one thing in common. They are denied the satisfaction of good, clean, honest, hard work because of their service-connected disabilities. They are compensated by an income ($115 a month) which does not come anywhere near to supplying the bare, basic necessities of living...
Taft, in effect, could see no basic difference between international and civil law. He indicated that little was gained at Nürnberg and much was lost. He doubted "whether the hanging of those who . . . were the leaders of the German people, will ever discourage the making of aggressive war, for no one makes aggressive war unless he expects...
...Many MRP voters oppose Communism as a matter of basic principle, dislike any deal with the Communists...
...Basic B.R.T. This season, beefy tackles and flashy halfbacks, fresh out of G.I. uniform, are three-deep on many a campus -often on different campuses from the ones they trod before the war. The traffic in talented footballers is greater by far than in 1929, when the Carnegie Report let go a blast at professionalism in college athletics...
...second half, Harlow restricted his outfit to a small number of basic plays, and Kenny O'Donnell, whose injured hand restricted his offensive potentialities, was calling the plays shrewdly...