Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting opened against a background of Castro-incited unrest, as 400 raging demonstrators tried futilely to charge the hall. Next day the ranking critic of the U.S., Brazilian Delegation Chief Augusto Frederico Schmidt, led off by charging that the Eisenhower plan-which is devoted to such social objectives as low-cost housing, improved education, land reform-is not enough. Schmidt, Brazil's gruff businessman-poet, is the man who devised Brazil's Operation Pan American, a much more grandiose idea. Said he: "We cannot eliminate the old enemies of this hemisphere with temporary tactics." Was $500 million...
WGMS actually serenaded the President long before Paul Hume began serenading presidential hopefuls on our station. While President Eisenhower was recovering from his 1955 heart attack, WGMS piped background music to the President's Walter Reed Hospital room...
...press conference - a regal affair where reporters wear cutaways and striped trousers - and "clumped down in the rear row, hoping my blue suit wouldn't seem too shabby." He and Fodor met their deadline with a massive report to Foreign News Writer Richard Armstrong, who, having drawn on background material put together by Researcher Nancy McD. Chase, turned out the story of a hardworking king in trouble. What McHale and Fodor needed then was rest-perhaps in a miniature-like garden. But there were thorns. On the plane ride back to Beirut, McHale reported, "I got no sleep, partly...
...well-publicized defiance of the East German threats, allied planes proceeded to fly in delegates to the rallies. But at check points along the land routes, many an ordinary West German was turned back, and traffic piled up for miles as East German cops carefully checked the background of the occupants of each...
...country. He was not, in the language of the American criminal courts, simply 'copping a plea' for himself. He was copping a plea for the U.S. When he accepted his job-and at $30,000 a year it was an infinitely better job than his background could ever otherwise have found for him -he took his chances. Here was no little boy who had lost his way in the Soviet labyrinths. Here was a man on a high mission who knew in advance of its risks-and of its privileges...