Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmer speaks mostly through his farm organizations. If the farmer's voice sometimes seems garbled in transmission, it is because the farm organizations themselves differ greatly in background, makeup, leadership and outlook. The nation's major farm organizations...
...workers in the Nairobi office of East African Railways were surprised to learn that quiet, spectacled Walter Gash, a timetable checker, had won an M.B.E. ( Member of the Order of the British Empire) for pioneering this kind of warfare. Linking up with Mau Mau gangs, but staying in the background ("My phony Kikuyu accent would have given me away"), Gash gathered intelligence information, then would suddenly fling aside his rags and open fire with a submachine gun. "It was a case of kill or be killed in the forest," said Gash. Another operator working with the Pseudos was William Baldwin...
...harmoniously as Eisenhower and Nixon today. So true was Marshall to Wilson, that when Wilson was disabled he refused to take on any of the responsibilities of the presidency which he might constitutionally have assumed. To a similar but not quite the same degree Nixon kept himself in the background while Eisenhower was disabled...
...With the advent this last fall of Natural Sciences 7--Problems of the Earth and Universe, given by Bok and L. Don Leet, professor of Geology--the Astronomy Department has felt free to make Astronomy 1a and 1b more technical courses. This year's approach emphasized a mathematical background which had been unnecessary in the past...
...giving his conception of the "Palestine Problem" as that of an area where one small section has been completely and artificially transformed in religion, culture, language and economy in too short a time. One can not solve or negotiate the problem unless one treats it within this historical background, he said...