Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Rights. The committee, its members reported, found "much that has shocked us, and much that has made us feel ashamed." The committee felt that everyone in the U.S. was entitled to the protection of four basic rights: to safety. and security of person, to citizenship and its privileges, to equality of opportunity, to freedom of conscience and expression. At present only freedom of conscience and expression, said the committee, is "relatively secure...
Sugar, pineapples and the islands' huge military institutions were still basic industries. But now there were many new small businesses, and organized labor had become a controversial force-Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's Union controlled the waterfront, represented sugar and pineapple workers throughout the islands, claimed 35,000 members...
...York Times' annual "Fashions of the Times," sportive designers presented living caricatures of the three basic silhouettes of the "New Look" (see cut): the melon, the pyramid, and the "derrière de Paris...
...policy of equalizing misery and organizing scarcity, instead of allowing diligence, self-interest and ingenuity to produce abundance, has only to be prolonged to kill this British Island stone dead. We are told, and I am told, that we Conservatives have no policy. . . . Here is the policy: establish a basic standard for life and labor and provide the necessary basic foods for all. Once that is done, set the people free-get out of the way and let them all make the best of themselves, and win whatever prizes they can for their families and for their country...
...does a cancer behave differently from normal tissue? At Yale University's Medical School, a lanky, greying pathologist named Harry Sylvestre Nutting Greene is looking for an answer to this basic question...