Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Background of Policy. Marshall was studying the German problem when the message came that Britain would be obliged to withdraw her support of Greece after March 31. He abandoned the German problem forthwith and turned his attention to the Mediterranean. He conferred for many anxious hours with Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson and General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower...
...laid it before congressional leaders on Feb. 27. On the day Marshall left for Moscow, Clark Clifford, Truman's adviser and ghostwriter, began editing Marshall, Acheson and Eisenhower into shape. Clifford's draft was sent to Marshall, who made only a few revisions. That was the background of the statement. (Thus Henry Wallace's angry charge over the radio that Harry Truman had undermined his Secretary of State's assignment was obviously incorrect...
Boomerang! Dana Andrews and a good cast act out a real-life murder story against the real background of a real town (TIME, March...
Perhaps the Odets drama has lost just a little of its fiery workers-of-the-world-unite spirit--at any rate the current Pasadena address of its anther hangs in the background to dispel any idealist fervor. But the Dramatic Club cast manages to wring from the script more of the tragic social significance than could be expected perhaps even of a professional group...
Shedd, best downhill man on the team and sixth in the individual standings in the Easterns last Saturday, will be backed up by an able group of Freshmen and Sophomores. Jerry Genn, with a long and varied ski background, is the leading slalom man, and also competes in jumping and downhill events. Larry Griffin of Seattle, the only four-event man on the team, has been consistently entered in downhill, slalom, cross-country, and jumping...