Word: basic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Said Dulles warmly: "It is not necessary to re-examine the fundamentals. They are fixed, solid and unshaken." The crucial point: whatever the "tactical flexibility" deployed for the inevitable Big Four talks on Germany this spring, the West is still fixed, solid and unshaken on the basic proposition that to Communism there is no truth, and faith can be extended only to agreements that can be checked, patrolled and examined every step...
...describing the contest, Percussion quoted Glamour's ten basic points for a well-dressed girl. Among the qualifications were "good grooming--not just neat, but impeccable," an "appropriate campus look, in line with local customs," and an "appropriate--not rah rah--look for off-campus occasions...
GENEVA, Feb. 13--The Soviet Union raised new objections today to the international staffing of control posts and thereby deepened a basic East-West dispute holding up progress in the nuclear weapons test ban conference. Soviet chief delegate Semyon Tsarapkin and Professor E.K. Federov questioned the integrity of international personnel...
Perkins emphasized that Rent Adjustment was not a method for financial aid. The basic purpose of Rent Adjustment, he stated, was to "bring together men with capacity for different rents and to keep different abilities to pay from separating roommates." Students will not be permitted to move into lower-priced suites next term, however, unless they obtain special permission from their Masters...
...basic fault was a lack of careful groundwork. During the seven years of Dictator Fulgencio Batista's iron regime, and during the two years of Rebel Fidel Castro's mountain-locked resistance, Cuba got too little attention from the daily press. Scant word of Batista atrocities-of the Cubans who died at the hands of his army and his police-filtered past his porous censorship. The strength of the Castro position, after the revolt lapsed into a tropical stalemate, was misjudged...