Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eastern U.S. city, a newsman interviewed relatives and friends of one of the 23 U.S. war prisoners who have refused repatriation, to find out whether anything in his home background had made the soldier discontented with life in the U.S. The newsman's findings...
More suspects were brought in. According to the pre-trial testimony, Sevim Tari had been sent by Moscow from Paris to "guide" secret Communist operations in Turkey. They counted on her good social background to throw off suspicion. But she was so sure of herself that she failed to take adequate precautions. Said one of the cops: "She was a disaster for them, a godsend...
...background on the College, Fox wrote: "Harvard is a great educational institution; the greatest in the world we think. Harvard was founded by free men. Harvard's growth was made possible by free...
Billed as a thriller, Gently Does It scares no one. And a steady stream of undisguised hints wash away any trace of suspense. Against a background of urban England, Oliver, as Edward Bare, plays a limey opportunist who, for a chance to travel abroad, kills one wife and marries a second. A sharp voice for his uneducated but shrewd conceit, the facial expressions which change with the varying moods of flattery and hate, and the complete lack of human warmth all combine to make Bare a wonderful villain. It is this performance which is primarily responsible for keeping the play...
Perry Miller, professor of American Literature, delivered a Bergen Lecture at Yale last Friday. Tracing the European background of American 19th century literature, he titled his lecture "Nature and the National...