Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of his own staff, a 32-year-old former school teacher named Tom Bethell, with surreptitiously slipping the defense a copy of the prosecution's trial plan. In fact, the defense team did manage to secure such an outline and used it to full advantage in gathering background on Garrison's witnesses...
...concept of the course, Mirer said, is the combined study of "pure science" and related topical issues. Students will meet in lectures, where scientific background will be given and specific topics will be presented. But most of the course work will be done in sections...
Stewart said yesterday that, since his sabbatical was approved by the Corporation only last Monday, his plans are still indefinite. He said that he may do research for a book on the cultural background of the New Testament...
...embrace the "two cultures" and to pursue the world with a remarkably pragmatic sensibility. This quality is perhaps best illustrated by Haldane's conversion to vegetarianism under the impact of the Hindu doctrine of transmigrating souls. "Once you teach evolutionary biology to people with the Indian ideological background," he observed, "the distinction between eating goats and cannibalism appears rather thin. My claim to a more immortal soul than a goat's is not strong enough to justify me in eating the goat...
...INTENT, oracular faces are identified the first time they speak. After that they blend into a continuum of recurring voices, sometimes coupled with faces, but more often in the background, while the people who haven't learned how to talk kill each other or mastermind the killing...