Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...casual round with his buddies back home in Columbus. Jack Nicklaus, 19, joked with opponents and officials alike, was undaunted by the tricky greens of the 7,010-yd. course hacked out of the eastern slope of the Rampart Range, 6,500 ft. above sea level. Because of the backdrop of jagged peaks, some level greens seemed to slope uphill, some uphill greens seemed flat...
Daughter of France, by V. Sackville-West. A witty portrait of the lumbering spinster who was Louis XIV's cousin, against a backdrop of her brilliant and squalid...
Chattanooga ChooChoo. For the most part, the Russian press played the Nixon visit against a backdrop of stories highly critical of the U.S. exhibition ("What the Exhibition Conceals"), and others decrying U.S. unemployment and deficiencies in the U.S. medical profession. Nixon's speech opening the exhibition was carried in full, together with some hot-tempered letters from readers: "It is not necessary to exaggerate, Mr. Nixon...
...Aiuola moves on three different levels, the philosophic, the political, and the intimately personal; yet all three are perfectly fused. It observes the classic unities of time and place and occurs against a magnificent backdrop of mountains (which the set of the current production has denied us). The theme must owe something to Betti's lifelong career as a magistrate: it tells of the final human hunger to make sense of things--political catastrophies, the death of those we love--by restoring the concepts of guilt and innocence, punishment and choice, in all their dreadful nobility. Only by forcing...
Lost: Tooth & Growl. Against this gothic backdrop, the contemporary Walter Winchell has become virtually unrecognizable. Gentled by his years-or by something-the aging lion has lost much tooth and growl. The gossip content is redolent with secret mergers, splituations and apartaches, sexcess stories about hat-chicks and rot-and-roll singers, nawdy titles (what a fourcabulary! ), pufflicity seekers. Subdued is the shrill attack and jugular slash. There are more handsome compliments ("Hedda Hopper's attractive hairdo and apparel" ), more sentimental excursions into history ("[George Washington] was the father of our country. Even more-he was a brother...