Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this move while an economy-minded Congress slashes at the vitals of the national budget? And lastly, are succeeding generations of students with limited means doomed to that kind of capsule education that leaves little room for development of individual talents and even less room for the general, ethical background so essential in a free society? This small bit of education, decentralized to the hilt, might prove a very dangerous thing indeed to the masses of young men and women who would be buoyed up to a glimpse of college and then abandoned, thoroughly frustrated with their inability to continue...
...time. Tonight at 7 o'clock is the big one with flashguys and a 22 gun salute. Comb your bair, whip out your shiny new life, and look at the birdie. Afterwards, a cop for all plus a six-ring cirens with guaranteed mellow inselect background, Coine...
Hastily procuring an oilskin wallet from his paisley smoking jacket, he withdraw from it the assorted collection of bizarre photographs he usually employs to punctuate his salon talks, and spoke at length on the culture, background, and Versatility of the "Contemporary college girl...
Weaving through the Holyoke Street blast, Vag clutched the paper in his pocket, and, reassured, kept on up the street. He remembered when the long, heavy envelope had arrived. He'd looked at it suspiciously, noticing the return address. Dimly, in the background, he'd heard martial music playing as he extracted, in order, a small card, a large, many-itemed form, and a snide little scrap of yellow paper. It was to this last that he'd addressed wary attention; it was closely printed with a series of crisp pronunciamentos, studded with "you will," "do not fail...
...imposing sentence, Judge Francis J. W. Ford said he could not understand how a man of his "background and intelligence could descend to the level of a common thief." He reprimanded him sharply for his "thefts from veterans or anyone else, so that he could keep up with him associates in the circles in which he moved...