Word: background
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Certainly foreign players have helped our team a great deal," Munro said. "They have an excellent background in soccer experience, and they add a professionalism to the team...
Vogelsinger felt that his major problem as a Yale coach was deflating his players' ego. "Most of my players have a high school background of being a big fish in a small pond. Well, now all the fish are in one pot and we've got to work together...
Buckley is the political wonder of the year. A right-wing Republican by background and a Nixon follower on most issues today, Buckley ran on the Conservative Party ticket in the nation's most consistently liberal state. More than any other major candidate, he made the social issue work, drawing enough of a Silent Majority vote with an approach summarized by his motto...
PIERRE S. DU PONT IV. The power of the Du Pont name in Delaware moved in fresh ways with the election of Pierre S. du Pont IV, 35, to the state's at-large seat in the House. Du Font's background includes America's Cup yachting, Phillips Exeter, Princeton and Harvard Law School, and a stint as an executive in the family's chemical company. Republican Du Pont ran a strict party-line campaign, stressing law-and-order and withdrawing his earlier support of Charles Goodell when the White House opened its attack...
...sound track also gives itself airs -usually mock Bach, which cannot let the cast alone. Even when Cromwell sees his dead son, killed in civil war, the music interrupts to shatter one of the film's few poignant moments. Cromwell squanders most of its energy on background and battle. The gathering of legislators is truly a parliament of fowls, with the Earl of Manchester (Robert Morley) as a peacock of surpassing foppishness. The engagements between the Royalists and the Roundheads are conveyed with lapidary detail, down to the last cavalryman...