Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frank Pace is excellent presidential timber-well educated, fine background, superior administrative abilities. He has an interest in our Government, is an Anglo-Saxon, and approaches matters the way that type of person always does. Most important of all, he is a bang-up golfer...
Future Troubles. By his actions Larrazabal proved a willingness to compromise that stems from a nonpolitical, independent background. The well-mannered scion of an old naval family, he steered clear of the military group that originally brought Pérez Jiménez' junta to power in 1948, held minor posts (naval attache in Washington, head of the Caracas Military Club) under the dictator, was named supreme commander of the navy only a fortnight ago by the hard-pressed strongman...
...Zuider Zee. To enforce the order, barbed wire was strung around three sides of the house and its yard, and police mounted 24-hour guard. A team of radiation experts worked with a scintillation counter over every square foot of the grounds. The counter registered 60 times the normal (background) radioactivity. Technicians, looking like spacemen in white rubber suits with protective masks and gloves, used long-handled shovels to put radioactive matter away in a special truck. Frightened townsfolk washed their hair as often as Mary Martin in South Pacific, and many trooped in to the local police station...
...censors were responsible only for press messages in English and Spanish, Poland-born Reporter Szulc sent cables in Polish to a business address on Fifth Avenue, where a Polish-speaking friend had agreed in advance to translate and relay his files to the Times. He also smuggled out background stories each day with outbound airline passengers...
...first newsworthy Australian play in history, it has its piquant side-plenty of local color, a working-class lingo, accents faithfully rendered by an all-Australian cast. As altogether honest work, it treats understandingly of believable people and of an odd patterning of human lives. But neither a fresh background nor a sound theme can give the play sufficient dramatic pressure or verbal leverage; if there are no false notes to the writing, there are no resonances or overtones either...