Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officers of the society are responsible for the theme of the meeting, and the members for the conduct of the meeting. One of the officers, moreover, prepares an explanation of the background of each of the wines. Thus in a recent meeting, seven white wines of Germany were chosen. Two well-known wines of the Mosel region were compared to three popular wines of the Rhine region. Contrasts were further made between the Rhine and Mosel on the one hand, and on the other hand, to a wine from the Stein region, and one from Alsace...
...this world has a fragile dignity. Every once in a while the admiral smiles a strange wry little smile. The sailor's dance in the background is sometimes played on soft bells...
...devoted to the study of the new relationship between science and medicine, Wood stressed that "the progress of natural science has forced all physicians to be better scientists." He attacked the tendency of pre-med students to slight science courses, declaring that doctors must acquire much of their scientific background as undergraduates...
Hauge will be working under a man with a vastly different background: the slow-spoken. Florida-born McNeill began his business career by running a watermelon-and-cucumber brokerage while still in high school. He got into banking in a small bank that his uncle controlled, was president of the Hanover when it merged with Manufacturers Trust. On the side he is a Chrysler Corp. director, and as chairman of Chrysler's finance committee has played an important part in putting the company on the comeback trail...
...East-West writing and thinking, Johnson has tried to invent an entirely neutral language. It avoids metaphor. It examines not souls but outer surfaces, which can be seen and verified. What emerges with surprising vividness is a finely woven texture of physical existence in the East zone. Against this background, a Western reader, spurred by the effort to fill in the outlines of individual emotion only hinted at by the author, soon begins to speculate on small and large moral questions. Sample problem for a border guard: A man is escaping. I must shoot. But should I shoot to kill...