Word: background
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...employed some of the techniques of Alcoholics Anonymous. When it hears of someone who has just had an amputation, it sends a member to visit him in the hospital, and offer practical advice; so far as possible the visitor is chosen to match the patient in age, general background and type of operation...
...results of Fainsod's project will be used as general background material at the Research Center or for special studies in the future, officials at the Center said last night. They added that it all depends on what the series of interviews reveal...
Soviet officialdom decided to make it plain that good upright Communist bipeds would not be caught cavorting about on all fours. In Izvestia, Party Polemicist Boris Lavrenev reported that a look at Antipin's family tree revealed a wretched bourgeois background. The professor had fought the Red army as a member of Admiral Kolchak's White Guard in 1919. Obviously, Lavrenev concluded, Antipin was nothing but "a common adventurer, slavishly addicted to idiotic . . . ravings...
Then a serious nervous shake-up forced Mr. Forrestal to resign, and Louis A. Johnson, with a reputedly pro-Army background, took over. The Air Force promptly renewed the fight, claiming that the big carrier, scheduled to be laid down in early April, was superfluous and eminently vulnerable. The airmen said the cost of the ship was too high for its usefulness, that it was an infringement on their "rightful control of strategic bombing." The Navy fought back, citing the fine record of its carriers in the World War II Pacific campaigns. Then the Air Force appeared with its trump...
...Background Material. In Manhattan, when Waiter George Tucker was fired because his boss thought that Tucker's urge to write a novel might possibly embarrass patrons, New York State Mediation Board Arbitrator Sidney A. Wolff handed down the ruling for his reinstatement: "To deny a would-be author employment . . . might well stifle literary and creative genius...