Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steered the arduous Burma-China supply shuttle over "the Hump," the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, and the combat air supply in Korea. (A Tunner-made motto: "We can fly anything, anywhere, anytime.") The job of European Air Force boss was Tunner's first all-round command, broadened his background to make him a top-echelon candidate...
Colonel Sinnott, beardless, is depicted in the painting as the youngest of the three escort horsemen in the background. The colonel was riding next to the general when Jackson was accidentally shot, and was the one who went for the doctor...
More & More People. Counselors leave their evening's charges a kit that includes the first two lessons of a Bible course, Bible verses to be memorized, and a Gospel of John. They also fill out a card with particulars of the inquirer's religious background, to be forwarded to an appropriate minister. Within 48 hours the counselors are supposed to follow up with a letter, a phone call or a visit. In most campaigns counselors are expected to nurture their charges until the minister takes over, but in New York this practice cannot be followed punctiliously. "Just...
...matter what his background or temperament, any man who succeeded Robert Hutchins as head of the University of Chicago was bound to run into special problems. Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton has been no exception. In just under six years he has gone far in returning the college to a normal four-year curriculum, favored the revival of football, thrown himself into such necessary activities as clearing the slums around the campus. As a result, many facultymen, whether they agreed with Hutchins or not, have missed the high excitement of his regime, and for one reason or another, some of Chicago...
Cubism, Picasso's next creation in collaboration with Georges Braque, now seems less like an explosion in a shingle factory than a rigorous analysis of reality in terms of planes rather than lines. In such works as Girl with Mandolin, where the figure and background have been broken into sharp-edged, sculptural planes, with the mandolin and model's breast distorted to carry the viewer's eye around the bend, there is today a kind of elegance and even a sensual formalism...