Word: background
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour day at his desk, the other seven talking to workers or watching them make glass. He and his employees use the familiar tu when speaking to one another, but there is no doubt who is boss. A TIME correspondent recently watched Marquot among his workers. Against the eerie background of a dozen gaping furnaces belching fire, men & women moved swiftly as fireflies carrying red-hot glass at the end of prongs, molding, blowing, cooling. There was not much room, but the workers never got in each other's way. Said the capitaliste éclair...
...past, the hopelessly confused accounting has been the curse that Curley has placed on the head of his successors. The Boston voters elected the new mayor on the hope that he could untangle the Curley mess; with his experience as acting mayor and city clerk, Hynes has the background to satisfy this hope. But the job is ahead and the work, more than the wishes, of the Hynes supporters will be required to accomplish it successfully...
Reel quotes an Army lawyer's comment : "Under such a principle, I suppose, even MacArthur should be tried." . Objection. A military commission of five U.S. generals* sat in judgment on Yamashita. They had no legal background. The commission seemed to feel that defense objections, made for the record, wasted time and smacked of insubordination. Once, in a smiling but meaning aside to Reel, one of the general-judges remarked: "You fellows should talk to us, not to the record. You'll get along better...
...distinguished-looking man of 84 who had once (1897) been a Texas county judge. The son of a Methodist minister, he was inordinately proud of his Scotch-Irish background and of the fact that his ancestors had fought in every North American war since the Revolution. At one time or another, he had run a chain of banks in Texas, a gas company, a cotton exporting firm, a flour mill, a steel company, a ranch and 38 Mississippi plantations on which he had found...
...into Paris in the costliest production ever given a U.S. play in France. Adapter-Producer Jean Cocteau, Parisian jack-of-all-arts, had treated it to a few touches of his own. In each seduction scene, a spotlight shifted to a Negro woman doing a belly dance in the background. Cocteau had also salted the dialogue. One critic noted that he had used "merde at least ten times, and it was one of the milder expressions...