Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fascinated Government officials he explained: "We were taught that it is essential for the Communist Party to entrench itself in the basic and key industries to foment strikes, the paralyzing of the economy, the arming of the workers and the winning over of the armed forces to become allies of the workers for the purpose of overthrowing the Government." He had often conferred with Santo, he said, explaining that "Santo's job was to organize the subway system in the City of New York...
...sandy, sun-scorched Yucatán, men had no eyes for the hurricane that last week swept the Gulf of Mexico's other shore. They watched, instead, a storm gathering over the markets of New York. The future price of henequen, basic barometric reading in the peninsula, was uncertain. The men who grow the cactuslike plant that supplies much of the world's rope and cordage might soon have to dive for the storm cellar...
...consequences might be enormous. The hydrogen atom, with its single proton and single electron, is the simplest atomic structure. It is therefore the starting point for investigation of the fundamental mysteries of matter. The atoms of other elements are more complicated, but presumably their constituent particles follow the same basic laws...
While the '51 line seemed to be shaping up as the strong point in this year's squad, some schoolboy backfield stars were running through basic plays. Phil Bolster, fullback for Newton High's 1944 eleven and big John West from Winchester are two of the prop stars seeking berths on the squad...
...basic agreed-upon theme of the Madison delegates when they actually came to grips with their enterprise's scope was: "go easy". For effectiveness the stripling organization would have to stress certain limited goals. The domestic affairs commission looks ahead to everything from regional "culturale" festivals to countrywide graduate job placement. The international anticipates greater attention to foreign students to show them America at its best. But the NSA has only two hands, and it's a beginner...