Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jaundiced Dracula in ragpicker's clothing-in a background of bile...
...Guinea, Okinawa and Japan, as a lieutenant colonel. Back in McAlester after the war, he resumed his law practice, but when Representative Paul Stewart resigned because of ill-health, Albert ran for the seat. He won a spirited Democratic primary by a scant 350 votes; his Oxford background had not sat well with some of the farmers. The general election was a pushover (Oklahoma's Third District rarely elects a Republican to office), and in his re-election campaigns since 1946, Albert has never received less than 75% of the Third District's vote...
...Thompson were quietly and steadily at work last week. As for Kennedy's 28 "political" appointees, half come from education, law or journalism, while nine more come from other Government jobs. Three of the liveliest choices-and likeliest successes-among the new appointees are notable for their background, personality and high professional qualifications. The three...
...With a background of 13 years in Japan, the former Director of Harvard's Center for East Asian Studies is "an honorable cousin" to the Japanese, who are seeing the first U.S. ambassador who speaks, reads, and writes their language. Reischauer is said to have begun his preparation 30 years ago as the only student taking Harvard's Chinese classics course...
...recently-published articles, Professor Stanley Hogmann has given us his own re-evaluation of the UN after the events of these last hard months. "What Keeps the UN Alive," in the October 30 issue of the New Leader, explored the background of the present unsettled condition of the world body; "The UN and the Use of Force," in the New Republic for January 8, discusses the significance of military action by so unstable an organization. Taken together, these articles are an important attempt to define the limitations of the UN, and to establish what should be the "proper limits...