Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beleaguered Administration leaders, 62-year-old Dr. Graham would provide a dependable, much-needed vote right where it counted most. He had helped write the Administration's basic civil rights program. He had gone down the line for everything else in Harry Truman's Fair Deal. For a good 20 years he had been the outspoken sparkplug of scores of liberal and left-wing groups...
...world's depleting natural resources and increasing population--was expressed by a panel manned by Vannevar Bush, president of Carnegie Institution of Washington, Frank W. Notestein, director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton, Fairfield Osborne, president of the Conservation Foundation, Robert P. Russell, director of the International Basic Economy Corporation, and Sir Henry Tizard, British production expert...
...basic Economics course has 549 students enrolled in it, making it second only to required English A for highest total enrollment...
...nailed civil rights into their party platform, but a majority of Senate Republicans had used a quibble over rules to keep civil rights from coming to a vote. The filibustering Southern Democrats had hollered over the holy rights of a minority in the Senate while contriving to deny basic rights of citizenship to a minority of 9,530,000 Negroes in the South...
Crimson head coach Arthur Valpey had high hopes of success for his two former football players. "They're both good fundamentalists and they have a fine basic knowledge of the system...