Word: ground-work
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...work of these young Turks--Byzantines ifyou will--is making the encyclopedic classicalknowledge of more traditional scholars irrelevent.It succeeds in creating the "ground-work" forliterary criticism, which scholars weretraditionally able to do only after years ofdetailed study...
...sociological study and the two women began accumulating data. Not content with simply interviewing the 96 undergraduates in their survey, Schwartz and Lever underwent mixers, beer guzzling, weekend trips, and pick-up attempts with their Yale subjects. Indeed, the data accumulated so rapidly that Schwartz's expertise served as ground-work for the well-known Student Guide to Sex on Campus (written by a group which could only be found amid the earnest self-consciousness of Yale--the Student Committee on Human Sexuality...
While Johnson was gaining the biggest consensus of all time, the ground-work was being laid for a mass movement which would seriously challenge his tenure in office. In August, Congress adopted the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, enabling the tremendous involvement of the United States in Vietnam. Late November saw the birth of University Reform at Berkeley. Students served warning about what they could do when they found a cause...
...decision created an unprecedented situation. The election was following its prescribed course to a conclusive final step in the legislature. By declaring that step unconstitutional, the Court removed the ground-work for the whole election...
...hope to lay the ground-work at this exploratory conference for the idea of the city of the future," Sert added...