Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After investigating 124 Teamster officers with criminal records, the committee concluded that a criminal background was a "prerequisite" for "advancement within the Teamster firmament." In cities that he invaded in his drive for power, the committee found, Hoffa teamed up with convicts and thugs. Items...
Self-Contained Music Player. A small (22 in. long, 51 Ibs.), automatic background-music player that provides 37½ hours of music on 16⅔ r.p.m. records was put on sale by Seeburg Corp. It will be leased for as little as $30 a month...
...skeptics pointed to the ice-cold fact that the Berlin crisis still lurks unsolved in the background. If Khrushchev brought on the Berlin crisis back in November 1958 to force the West to a summit meeting, his ploy had worked: without yielding the West any concession on Berlin except postponement, he had gained a prize that he may have wanted more than a summit meeting: a Big Two meeting, viewed in Soviet policy as a step toward the basic goal of breaking up the U.S.'s alliances in Europe and Asia...
...boxer of small talents, fighting for as little as a dollar a bout. He learned the rudiments of tailoring in a cousin's shop, then headed West and worked as an extra in Wallace Reid pictures. "Every scene had to have a bunch of people in the background eating peanuts," he remembers. "I was hired as a peanut eater." When the peanuts palled, Nudie bummed his way back to Manhattan and went into Specialty Costumes ("What that means is that I was in the G-string business...
...best of modern mysteries equal or outrank the run-of-the-rental-shelf "straight" novel in almost every department-plotting, characterization, background. They are novels of emotional conflict, in unusual settings, books that wrestle with the problems of frustration or greed or success. The traditional hole in the victim's head is often added as a sort of casual dividend. Seasonal items...