Word: backdropped
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...Standing on the platform before a light-blue backdrop on which was painted one-half of the world (minus the Western Hemisphere), the speaker shouted the same words again, and once more the crowd broke into a high frenzy. Three times more he shouted the same words, greetings to the 'heroic nations of the U.S.S.R.,' and each time the crowd nearly blasted him from the platform...
Hammonasset Beach will replace Derby, Connecticut, as the backdrop of the frolic which has been revamped to include intramural sports, a rugby match, less liquor than usual, and a new "attitude of restraint." The new site is 25 miles east of New Haven on route...
Better than any book before or after, it created a believable social backdrop for the Spanish civil war, described the barbarous excesses of both sides with uncommon realism and candor...
...salvages the title, one sketch and three songs from the 1946 Broadway hit revue that celebrated the G.I.'s exultant return to civilian life. Now that olive drab is back in style, the Technicolored cinemusical re-enlists in the Army and uses the Japanese occupation as a backdrop for songs & dances by Dan Dailey and Betty Grable, World War II's favorite pin-up girl...
Dallas (Warner) as pictured in this high-budget western, is a culturally aspiring town without indoor plumbing, Nieman-Marcus or much law & order. It makes a backdrop for a story about ex-Confederate Colonel Gary Cooper's revenge against the carpetbaggers (Raymond Massey, Steve Cochran) who razed his Georgia home and are busily raising the devil in Texas...