Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BMOC rated as to: a) Intellect, b) Secondary school background, c) Fraternity and social background, d) Extra-curricular pursuits, and c) Family background...
...identified as the source of the stories, and for four days what he said stood as the U.S. Government's estimate of the Far East situation. Then James Hagerty, the President's news secretary, splashed ice water all over the admiral's estimate. At his own "background" dinner with a larger contingent of correspondents, Hagerty said that Carney's story did not represent the view of the Eisenhower Administration...
...daily. They watched the paper's circulation and profits soar, bought vast Canadian pulp forests and a fleet of vessels that still supply the Trib with paper. But the cousins seldom saw eye to eye. Though he bitterly condemned the idle rich, Bertie reveled in his own aristocratic background; Patterson, a turtleneck sweater man at heart, rebelled against it, became an active Socialist. While he rode the streetcars of Chicago, rubbing shoulders with his readers, cousin Bertie rode to hounds...
...Torch-Song Background. Each year some 75 young women between the ages of 16 and 30 are accepted as postulants. They bring a "dowry" of $100 (it may be dispensed with in hardship cases), which goes toward financing the order's work. Postulants take no vows while undergoing a kind of basic training. After six months a postulant may receive the habit and white veil of a novice together with a new name. For the next two years she leads the full life of a Maryknoll sister, but also studies Catholic doctrine, the essentials of religious life ("Emily Post...
...complained in one letter that "if he would only pose better, he would please me very much and we would have a much better portrait than the one I am doing now. The subject is good, with his flat, pale face and his red cap against an emerald-green background...