Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bower of long sticks and fronds, shaped like a Maypole around a sapling and surrounded by three piles of artfully arranged fruit- blue, green and yellow. The male "held a bright blue fruit in its bill and pointed it toward the female, so it could be seen against the background of its golden crest." The courting creature also emitted a series of odd cries while quivering its crest seductively. Diamond watched for 20 min utes, but "the male did not succeed and the female flew...
...Post's case, both Greider and Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee say that the background sessions with Stockman helped guide the newspaper's coverage of Reagan's economic program. Says Greider: "If you went back you would see a lot of Post stories reflecting my conversations with Stockman." To bolster this claim, an article in last Friday's Post by Robert G. Kaiser listed four stories that had included information supplied by Stockman. In two of them, it was attributed to him; hi the others, it was attributed to a White House official. Bradlee said the Post...
Fish said that he can't attend The Game any longer because he has a hard time "getting around," regardless of his football background...
...with few clouds in the sky, it seems that no matter where the visitor looks on the sprawling UNC campus, blue sky is conspicuous in the background. In fact, wherever you look here in "Tar Hell" country, there's sky blue in view...
This stress on team unity bears the impress of his religious background; he graduated form Gonzaga College High School, a Jesuit institution in downtown Washington, D.C. "There is something religious about [the team working together for a common goal], or at least for someone with a religious background it seems like something of an affirmation...