Word: background
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most civilian secretaries before him, Matthews was a little slim on nautical background, but hoped to learn. Said Landlubber Matthews: "I do have a rowboat at my summer home...
...physical discomforts of the front shoved most of this attitude to the background, the report goes on. In fact, the mud and K-rations made a deeper impression than the constant threat to life and limb...
Schwartz sketched the background of the Chinese Communist movement and paralleled the political techniques of Communist leader Mao Tze Tung to those of Lenin. Communism's chief attraction to the Chinese, he said, is its action and melodramatic methods as compared to the inefficient bumbling of Chiang Kai Shek's Kuomintang government...
Although Nora, who is strongly antiCommunist, would say little about her brother, she provided some important background on their family. She said that after not seeing him for 18 years she found out his identity and position in the U.S. Communist Party when an aunt told her to get a copy of TIME'S April 7, 1947 issue. There she read about her brother's appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee and his refusal to give his right name...
This is a simple story of a New York boy of middle-class background who becomes a poet, sails to South America and back on a freighter, has a love affair with a girl in Greenwich Village, and goes to Paris. It is one more report on that special subdivision of the American Dream in which poets, artists, musicians and other emancipated spirits defy the Philistines, have love affairs without tears, and go forth alone to meet a hostile and uncomprehending world...