Word: background
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Background: Born in Magdeburg (now in the East zone) March 27, 1901, son of an old-line Socialist bricklayer...
Ernst replied that he did not believe in the common standards of decency. He said that even among Roman Catholics there is no common ground, the Irish with a Puritan background and the Latins thinking in entirely different ways. He also claimed that it is abnormal for Catholic nuns and priests to judge obscenity for people who are not celibate as they are, therefore having a different attitude toward...
...seven labor representatives called Curry "one of those rigid disciplinarians when it comes to business," while another reproached him for his "schoolmaster background." They were bargaining for the same pay raise which firemen and policemen received this year...
...bank salesmanship is also transforming the industry's old-fashioned marble mausoleums into modern buildings of shimmering glass, bright aluminum and soft background music, creating an inviting atmosphere that increases business. To call attention to itself, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society has even gone so far as to deck out its tellers and passbooks in gaudy Duncan plaid. Result: there were 2,200 new accounts in the first few months...
...point of no return. Lord Jim, which read like a boy's story, was actually a painful parable of the penance a man must do to reclaim honor lost in one moment of cowardice. In Heart of Darkness, the most enigmatic of his novels, Conrad used as background his dismal experiences in the Belgian Congo. Its protagonist Kurtz is a portrait of a man whose pure will-to-power has squandered itself hopelessly. In the epigraph to The Hollow Men, T. S. Eliot saluted this defeat: "Mistah Kurtz?he dead," quoted Eliot, recognizing that no man is more hollow than...