Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States furnishes particularly good opportunities for the moaners and groaners. Its material wealth forms a perfect background against which to accentuate its inept statesmanship, its political stupidity, its immorality, social injustice and inequality, the break up of its families and churches, and the pitiful inadequacy of its educational facilities. And their charges are true, but they are not the whole story. From the times of the earliest settlers in Massachusetts, the society of the United States has been built upon the bifurcation of an economic system which emphasizes acquisitiveness and a religion which makes every man his brother...
Little but Loud. The background of Congress' action was enough to make World Businessman Clayton give up in despair. Wool-growing is not a vital U.S. industry. It is a small, uneconomic business which assays at less than 1/1000 of the national income. But it has powerful friends-Congressmen and Senators from 23 wool-growing states, who can bleat as loudly as storm-whipped rams while trading support of bills to protect Southern peanut-growers for bills to protect Western sheep-raisers...
...people of the novel are the inhabitants of a Maine coastal village and a few summer visitors who stayed. The youngsters whose brief love affair is doomed by deep differences in background and small-town backbiting are unusual only because Miss Athas reveals their emotions so delicately...
...slightly misleading article on Keats's sketch of Haydon now exhibited in the London National Portrait Gallery. The reproduction fails to make clear that the "vile caricature of B. R. Haydon by John Keats" (as Haydon, not Keats, wrote beneath it) is the faintly drawn profile in the background, reproduced herewith [see cut] with the other sketches by Haydon suppressed. . . . This is indeed a "vile caricature...
...Gromyko, "not to take [Zionist aspirations] into account." Then he proposed partition of Palestine (which Arabs have unanimously opposed) as one possible solution of the Palestine problem. Russia, in effect, jumped up on the fence with Britain and the U.S. On Palestine, where big-power rivalry (always in the background) had not yet been clearly defined, the U.N. at last was able to take almost unanimous action. The General Assembly voted, 46 to 7, for the plan backed by the U.S.: a special commission of eleven small "neutral" states* with the "widest powers" to investigate every phase of the Palestine...