Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion that the secret could not be kept, argued that the bomb be made available to the United Nations Organization. Said Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps: "The thing I fear is that as the months and years pass the story of Nagasaki and Hiroshima will fade into the background and that . . . this new power of destruction . . . will cease to have its compelling force upon our political actions...
...Traxler lists hundreds of elaborate tests designed to find out all about a schoolboy by "measuring" his background, attitude, aptitude, achievement and personality. Some of them: the Tweezer Dexterity Test and the Wiggly Block Test, to measure manual skill; the Cardall-Gilbert Test of Clerical Competence; the Meier-Seashore Art Judgment Test, the California Test of Mental Maturity, and the Orleans Geometry Prognosis Test (to predict the ability of pupils who never studied the subject...
...contract was both flowery and nebulous. It said that the company was "sympathetic to the enlightened and wise guidance of His Imperial Majesty . . . and his Government toward the destiny, which by history and background, Ethiopia so well deserves." In return for the concession, Sinclair promised to devote part of its Ethiopian profits-if any-to build schools, hospitals, clinics, sanitary facilities "and other public institutions for the enhancement, education, health, culture and prosperity of the people...
Rather his job is to dig out the vital background material and usually-overlooked detail that will give TIME'S news depth and feeling-to help our editors make their reports alive and understandable to TIME'S readers...
...hear conversation despite a loud background noise (e.g., of guns or machinery), put fingers in ears or wear earplugs...