Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the economic background of the battle which had moved into the courts when Lewis' chief antagonist arrived in Washington for the showdown...
...shoved the Good Neighbor Policy in the background, especially in relation to Argentina. In 1943 a military junta pulled off a coup d'etat in Buenos Aires. Falteringly, the U.S. first recognized one militarist regime, then denied recognition to the next...
...churches had shared an almost identical background and a history of unusually friendly relations, but their union had taken a long time. United Brethren and Evangelical representatives first gathered to talk it over in 1816; it was 1933 before they really got down to business...
...Whitman designed her bright colors in elaborate motifs, gave each motif a name. Examples: a yellow ticker tape tangled with prancing red devils, called "Ticker Tape"; a naked urchin facing a dark-green background of cactus, called "Cactus Also Needs Water." (There are also a few less discreet themes which have to be kept under the vest in polite company.) For snob appeal, Mrs. Whitman printed only 30 dozen of each design, with her crested monogram on each...
...this, U.S. physicists agreed, was not directly connected with "atomic energy for military purposes." It was background research. But mesons are close to the innermost problem: how to turn mass wholly into energy. A few pounds of mesons (if obtainable) would release more energy than 10,000 atomic bombs...