Word: backgrounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter may be bad, but we do not need a President with so many skeletons in his background either. Surely the Democrats can come up with a person who would be not only a strong leader but also someone we and our children could look...
There were ironies in the matching of man and mythic background. John Wayne entered the world on May 26, 1907, as Marion Michael Morrison, the son of an Iowa druggist who migrated to the San Fernando Valley, just east of Los Angeles. Young Michael played football for U.S.C. but retained many more intellectual interests than he liked to admit...
...killing came to be projected as a medical operation." Incredibly, some came to see genocide as a health measure. Said one: "If you have a gangrenous growth, you have to remove it." Another commented coldly that life at Auschwitz was as routine as "building a sewage project." Against the background of a eugenics movement that gained unfortunate respectability in some scientific circles in Europe and America during the '30s, says Lifton, "many doctors came to see themselves as vast revolutionary biological therapists." The third ranking doctor in the Nazi hierarchy admitted to him that he joined the party when...
...think we need any major changes in the teaching format," argues Michael Nesbit, vice president of the Business School Student Association. "A few marginal changes in the amount of background material we receive might be necessary, but the basic structure is sound...
...think you're making a mistake if you assume that anyone can teach ethics. These are tough problems. It's a serious subject, requiring a lot of thought and background. The faculty should have someone whose area of expertise this is, who they can turn to with their questions," Bok adds...