Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrest since June, and another opponent, Mohammed Khider, has been exiled. At one time Ben Bella seemed threatened by shadowy, ascetic Colonel Houari Boumedienne; as Defense Minister and army chief, he has so much power that he probably could take over. Apparently, he is content to work in the background, has kept the army loyal to Ben Bella...
Against his disgraceful background of contempt for the moral and legal foundations of this democracy, the offenses of the Albany Movement leaders seem trivial technicalities. Yet it is they whom the Government has decided to pursue; the nearly countless instances of police brutality have not attracted the Attorney General's attention. They are not, apparently, "matters of serious Federal legal concern." Governors Wallace and Barnett remain firmly in office despite flagrant contempt of the Federal courts...
...checks the background of nearly all the Latin American political leaders, you will see, starting from Fidel Castro, that nearly all have been student leaders...
...reputation as a historian was based primarily on his scholarly works on United States diplomacy during and after World War I. His writings include American Diplomacy During the World War, American Neutrality, 1914-1917. The Diplomatic Background of the War 1870-1914, and Woodrew Wilson and the World...
...Chillun Got Wings is an autobiographical play which bears a striking resemblance to O'Neill's explicit personal story, Long Day's Journey Into-Night. It is the story of the marriage of Ella, a white girl of bourgeois background and Jim, a Negro; but as O'Neill himself wrote: "The Negro question...it must be remembered, is not an issue in the play." All God's Chillun is about two people consumed by love for each other who at the same time hate each other for their inherent differences. The theme is basically the "love-hatred" relationship described...