Word: background
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history, he made Desert Fox Rommel fight Montgomery's kind of fight, and Monty won. Was he too tidy? Did all the pieces on his chess board have to be perfectly placed before he made his move? Perhaps. But no one reading his book against the background of the battle can find much to quarrel with. All generals rationalize, and so does Monty, but he has one massive fact in his favor...
HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 2--Cubans vote tomorrow for a new president and Congress amid a background of bloodshed and violence centered in eastern Cuba...
...Chris Herter, Jr., a personable figure and able campaigner. As the Democrats fought among themselves, Herter built himself up in the public image as a candidate untainted by corruption and politics. Recently he has been using taped recordings of Peabody's convention speeches denouncing McCormack, with Democrats in the background yelling "fraud...
Further hindrances are the lighting and photography, both of which give the movie such a limited visual appeal that it seems highly unreal. Also the use of subtitles upon an often white background sometimes makes it difficult to follow the dialogue...
Michael Parish may be weak and a little foolish, a man fixed by his background and fleeced by his women. But Lawyer-Novelist Auchincloss (The Great World and Timothy Colt, Sybil) pleads his case effectively. He also secures his own expanding niche in American letters, where he suavely dissects the outwardly successful failures and where, in the Fitzgerald tradition, the rich boy never gets off Scott free...