Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Therefore, in the story, Europe in the Spring, in this issue's International section TIME'S editors have been fortunate in having some fresh material available for background on what Western Europeans are thinking about questions of freedom & regimentation, war & peace, hope & despair. This material is part of the international survey of public opinion I discussed here six weeks ago. As many of you will recall, the findings of this survey were to be a basis for discussion by world spokesmen at an international forum on "The Future of Freedom" co-sponsored by TIME and New Orleans...
...time Joe DiMaggio stepped to bat, Dickson says he threw three perfect strikes ("Not down the middle-not to DiMaggio, ever. But they were good"). Umpire Bill Summers called each of them a ball-then apologized to the pitcher: "I'm sorry, Dick. It's that damned background. I can't follow the ball...
Neither could the Yankee batters. The background was an orange canvas curtain draped over the wire fence in centerfield (to spoil a free view for passers-by). The ball came out of that background and was on top of the batter before he knew it. By the seventh inning, not a Yankee had collected a hit. Murry's Cardinal teammates began to treat him just as if he were pitching a no-hitter in the regular season -when it counted...
...addition, the grad students' report named nine other fields that use Geography courses for background and tallied the increase in Geography enrolment since the thirties...
...Here a jurist brilliantly analyzed the world crisis and made quite clear how he would tackle this nation's dilemmas. His address was "political" in timing and content. Douglas himself has high political sex-appeal stemming from the frank informality of his appearance and the lusty variety of his background...