Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spark. His courtship was in keeping with his background. One night at a card party he met bright-eyed young Jeanne Renault. They were partners at charlemagne (a four-handed game played with 34 cards), and soon Jeanne told her friends that the shy young lawyer was mon idéal. Her friends warned her that it would not be easy to catch St. Laurent, a studious chap who spent most of his evenings with his law books. But when Louis started corresponding a short time later, everyone agreed: "C'est l'étincelle [It's the spark...
...Ground. At External Affairs, St. Laurent quickly made it clear that despite his background and training in nationalist Quebec, he was international-minded. He was one of the first statesmen to promote the idea of the North Atlantic pact. When the idea became a diplomatic reality, he sold the pact almost singlehanded to the Canadian people. Wherever he went he explained the pact in his customary ABC style of public speaking. He never missed a bet. "If we [all the people in the world] loved one another," he said last Christmas Eve when distributing gifts among a group of Quebec...
Revolt in San Marcos offers no pat answers, closes merely by posing its problems honestly. If Author North had as much skill in creating a full gallery of credible characters as he has in drawing Carlos and his problems against the convincing background, he might have written a great novel. It is still a pretty good first...
Suspended Judgment. Next day it became evident that Hathorn's testimony-and that of other witnesses-had made a different impression at the White House. The President stepped forward at his weekly press conference, with Harry Vaughan in the background drawn up to a militiaman's position of attention, and angrily denounced the investigation as unfair...
Whatever his background, a youngster entering the Republic earns his own livelihood, pays for his board & keep in one of the nine cottage-type dormitories in the Republic's own currency (redeemable at about 50? on the dollar). Jobs range from ditchdigging and housekeeping to plumbing, carpentry, masonry, welding, and office chores. Average income of a Republic citizen is about 15 Republican dollars a week, of which living expenses take about ten. Chief drains on the remainder: Republican income taxes, to pay salaries and expenses of junior government officials; clothing and travel; savings...