Word: contexts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fans and young statisticians can recall what happened in the years between Pearl Harbor and V-J day. William Mead's vision is less personal and more anecdotal. In this delightful, ram bling history, the St. Louis-raised journalist sees wartime baseball in its unique social context. To mask the ludicrous on-field play, he notes, major league baseball adopted a stern patriotic image. Players took part of their pay in war bonds, teams staged charity games and donated equipment to the Army. Privately, baseball officials tried to protect their pocketbooks and get their stars deferred from the draft...
...sums needed by HEW are so huge in fact that the Niagara of dollars that flows out to Americans can be rendered comprehensible only when placed, quite unfairly, in a wholly different context. If, for example, the money HEW plans to spend next year were given instead to all Americans, every man, woman and child in the U.S. would receive...
Disabled people are often asked to explain what is "wrong." This can be particularly offensive when asked out of the context of a conversation or when first being introduced to someone. I am not first and foremost disabled. Most people do not mind being asked about their disability when the subject comes up naturally. In those situations I prefer letting people who are curious know "what happened." They seem to feel more at ease when they understand why I am in a wheelchair...
...context of this kind of U.S.-Saudi relationship that the Saudis asked the U.S. to sell them 60 F-15 jet fighters. They have been astounded by the controversy that the deal has caused in the U.S., in part because they believe the sale would be as much to the advantage of the U.S. as it would be to their own. They point out that they would pay in cash for the $2.4 billion purchase, after all. and that the sale would be contributing to the defense of a strategically placed U.S. ally...
...such a heated political issue) if it chose to devote an entire opinion page to a diary-type narrative of the 1948 Deir Yassin Massacre or to a daily account of life in a Palestinian refugee camp without first putting such an article in the proper historical-political context. A lead-in article giving general background information on the issue would enable the reader to discern the emotional biases and distortions implicit in the article...