Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joseph Berkson, an M.D. and professor of statistics at the Mayo Foundation, rose the next day to proclaim his doubts about Hammond's case. ''We still need to know very much more about the background, environment, diet and medical history for victims of all diseases." he said...
Russian Jews view Editor Aron Ver-gelis, a short, stocky man with a shadowy background, with deep distrust. They suspect him of having worked for Stalin's secret police during World War II, and of holding the job of political commissar. One of the few Yiddish writers to escape interrogation, torture, and death during the Stalin purges, Vergelis got right to work at the politics of survival during the thaw that followed Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin. After the Suez invasion, Vergelis dashed off a Yiddish poem furiously attacking Israel. "We will force our enemies to surrender...
Your TIME cover picture [Aug. 18] of C. Douglas Dillon has stirred quite an interest among us. What aroused our curiosity are the gold bars stacked like bricks on the background of your cover. We just could not understand what the numbers stamped on the bars represent...
Immediately after Election Day, O'Brien drew an arduous assignment: checking the qualifications, background, weak points and strong suits of nearly 10,000 prospective officials in the new Administration. One afternoon in Palm Beach, going over the lists of names with O'Brien, Kennedy casually notified him of his new job: "By the way, I think this role of congressional liaison is for you." As a graduate of both houses, Kennedy gave O'Brien a warning against the pitfalls of intimacy. "In politics," the President-elect told him, "you don't have friends. You have allies...
Nehru's legal experts had obviously failed to tell him the whole story. The background, to be sure, was murky and fragmented, for that was the way things were in the chaotic months when World War II ended and every day was marked by hundreds of hurried decisions that affected the peace. The U.S. approach to the potential problems of postwar Germany left the Russians in a position to stir up trouble at will. But there are no grounds for questioning the West's legal rights...