Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Offensive at Home. Yet Chou's victory was secured against a desperate background that Asians-and the West-seemed incapable of understanding. In a very pressing sense, Chou had to Wave peace in Indo-China...
...Harvard summer school taught French Author-Lecturer Pierre Emmanuel enough about American students to give him serious misgivings. Compared to his former lycee pupils in France, he reports in the Atlantic Monthly, the average U.S. college student-in spite of his spontaneity and curiosity-has an intellectual background that is often chaotic, usually confused, and generally notable for its "absence of basic information...
...lacks, but "too many American students neglect the compass which history gives them for the sake of a personal approach to the classics . . . How quickly the American student makes friends with a book or a man and treats them as if they were his contemporaries! He hardly knows the background from which they arise. They surge out of his own mental world, haunt him, call forth in him an instantaneous and, frequently, a passionate reaction. A fortnight later, however, others have taken their place; it is love at first sight, but indifference rapidly follows...
...head thrust back in agony. While Dr. Martin examined her for signs of toxemia or a breech (butt-or feetfirst) delivery, the rest of the team spread newspapers over the furniture and set up equipment in the tiny kitchen. As they worked, Benjamin, the father, hovered anxiously in the background. A faulty electric fan started a fire, which Benjamin hastily...
...seemed "naive"-and headline-worthy as well. He announced that the House subcommittee to investigate the communization of Russia's European satellites would begin hearings during the Evanston conference. Said Congregationalist Bentley: "I will spare no opportunity to reveal all information available to me on [the delegates'] background and false pretenses of freedom of religion in Hungary...