Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet, genuine political talk--completely lacking in the usual ponderous phrases--gives "Flamingo Road" an accuracy which, with its background is quite appealing...
Despite his Republican background, he had fallen into the habit of voting for Franklin Roosevelt. Out of his market research, and his admiration for the New Deal, he had decided that the future of the nation lay in raising the living standards of its lowest-bracket third. One day he called on Connecticut's late Democratic Senator Francis Maloney and said: "Senator, I want to get into Democratic politics. How do I go about...
...Cabinet delegation will negotiate against a background of famine. The monsoons failed to bring India's seasonal heavy rains; cyclones and tidal waves ravaged fertile Madras Province. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, blaming the British for the food failure, called on peasants to "rebel against the political and social conditions that brought [the famine] about. ... If we have to die, let us die like men and not like rats in a hole...
...Governments which "have no real moral background; they evolve of necessity in the direction of ever greater centralization and more stringent uniformity...
...well that in ater years he was able to produce better snowstorm photos than his rivals, simply by splattering ink on his negatives. He also did early composites, during a macabre era in which people liked to be photographed with shadowy pictures of their deceased spouses showing in the background. He tried to make money printing photographs on satin pillowcases (a fad of the times), went $1,500 in debt with his own studio, then joined...