Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree with your suggestion for pictures embracing any creditable religious background. But you are wrong when you hint at conspiracy or suggest bigotry...
...anti-Communist labor paper, described him as "a servile propagandist... a consistent fabricator ... of his personal life and history," recalled that he was once praised by the Soviet Izvestia as a "lonely voice" in America. The New Leader also pointed out that Steel had the classic commentator's background-in 1934 he had written: "Hitler's days are numbered. The reader can count them on his fingers...
...experience, as a pharmacist's mate and ex-instructor of college history, to find that those people who were best able to adjust themselves to the difficulties of life in the service were not those who had a broad educational background, but rather, those who didn't know any better...
Toward the end of the war, Pratt said, the Navy had begun to improve itself, but "the Army clung throughout to [Major] General [Alexander] Surles, retired, who . . . simply lacked the background to be anything more than one of the glorified lackeys the Army system produced...
Outstanding among the present collection of ten paintings are the brilliant and exciting "Harlequin's Carnival," the naive "Birds and Insects," with its cheerful blue background, and the mysterious and suggestive "Composition...