Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...INTERSERVICE WARS. Connally demanded an end to the interservice bickering so often characterized by leaks and background statements. Said he: "The Navy's top civilian and military leaders cannot effectively fight for the kind of Navy we all want if they must be forever explaining away or defending some counter-policy utterance made by a well-intentioned but irresponsible officer." His instructions: "Recognize and accept your responsibility by insisting on being quoted by name, rank and billet...
Richard Nixon, who originally planned to stay in the background until June, has switched strategy, and will start swinging next month with speeches in Manhattan, Chicago, Detroit, Columbus and the South. But he will not be the main speaker at the G.O.P.'s big fund-raising dinner in Washington June 1. That honor goes to Dwight Eisenhower, while Nixon will hold forth at a similar dinner in Los Angeles the same evening...
...late '30's of the fifth century B.C., Pericles told the Athenians that their empire was a tyranny." With this as his background, Russell Meiggs, Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, proceeded last night to reconstruct Athenian history from 465-450 B.C. in the first part of this year's Jackson Lectures on "The Crisis of Athenian Imperialism...
Beginning in November, the Law School will join 86 others in giving a new kind of admissions exam. Supplementing the current Aptitude test, required of all applications, the new one will include examinations in both writing ability and general background...
...minute writing ability portion of the test hopes to "measure the student's command of grammar and diction as well as his ability to recognize verbose or unclear writing," the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J., reports. The "test of general background," containing 90 questions, will test "the student's awareness of the intellectual and cultural context in which the law functions...