Word: basically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calmer the American people take this, the better," declared the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Omar Bradley. "We have anticipated it for four years and it calls for no change in our basic defense plans." That was true. But there was an enormous difference between "tomorrow" and "now" and the armed forces were the first who would have to readjust their timing. Minutes after the news flash whipped through the Pentagon's interlaced corridors, officers were hastily pulling papers from confidential files, and translating future strategy into plans for the present...
...offensive tactics would undergo no basic alterations. No responsible strategist had ever believed that atomic bombs alone could win a war. But with atom bombs and bombers in the hands of an enemy, the Army & Navy, as well as the Air Force, took on new and immediate importance. If the U.S. wanted security, it would have to buy the full, costly package...
Ciardi, speaking next, answered Muchnick by denying the need or advisability of laws barring Communists from faculties, and said that such legislation would place a restriction on "the basic principle of the educational process--a mind free to observe data without outside influence...
...supplied more than half the bread for a whole group of major western European nations. It helped jump France's production to a figure slightly higher than the big boom year of 1928. But the Marshall Plan failed, as many people thought it would, to cut into Europe's basic economic troubles...
Designing the student's room has been a key problem for the architects. After consulting student committees, they evolved a basic unit for the single room. A two-man suite consists of two single rooms next to each other, with or with-out a partition in the middle...