Word: background
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standing unobtrusively in the background at the signing ceremony was the man who next day became the first permanent chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Omar Nelson Bradley. Never before had the nation given one military man a post of such responsibility and influence...
Nearby hung a model showing how the finished beaver case would look, with trees and leaves merging imperceptibly into the painted background...
...like this starts with a field trip," Wilson said. "Once we've decided what we want, off we go-a taxidermist or curator to trap and skin the animals, an accessories man, and a background man like myself." For the beavers, they went to central Michigan, stayed two weeks. Wilson made on-the-spot paintings and supplemented them with color photos. The accessories man collected shrubs and stumps for the foreground, things he could later reproduce in paper, wax and cellulose acetate...
...taxidermist was trying to decide on an oil to make one of the beavers stay wet-looking (he thought an overdose of Kreml might be the best bet). The electricians were working for a muted, dusky lighting effect. Wilson himself had three months painting ahead on the beaver background...
Hips & Door Butts. Such a man may choose his own lot and design his own house for a contractor to build-if he combines the patience of Job with the energy of Samson. He would begin by learning the necessary background for an intelligent lot-seeker, making it his business to study drainage, zoning, prevailing winds, taxes and prospects for taxes, new developments and proposals for new highways & byways in the county. Before designing the house itself he would cram his head with tables of construction costs (still more than double what they were ten years ago), master the rudiments...