Word: background
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...they weren't interested. So the night of the speech, Mem Hall was surrounded by about 1500 protesters and Wallace started speaking. The troopers were standing off in the background with their shiny pistols hitched to their hips and were getting a little worried now because the boos were growing louder. About halfway through, one starts coming over to me looking like he wants to shoot his way out. But he says, 'Mr. Tonis, ah believe we'd be interested in takin' a look at those tunnels you mentioned...
...request from Smith, dated Aug. 12, 1969, asking von Stade for his views on the proportion of undergraduate men to women. Smith stated in the letter that he was "trying to get a variety of other people connected with the University" to comment on the question as background for a discussion he was planning with Radcliffe alumnae...
Rakoff is looking for a diverse student body, both in terms of intelligence and economic background. "If I want to prove my point I can't have just super kids," he added...
...plenty of Italian macaroni and meatballs, we began our ride by crisscrossing the streets of East Cambridge, Vellucci's home territory. He drives a Chevrolet himself, instead of using a chauffeured Cadillac which the City traditionally provides its mayors. As we drove around with WRKO playing softly in the background, Vellucci explained two differences between East Cambridge and Harvard Square. First, the East Cambridge neighborhood is tight-knit: it is not unusual for next-door neighbors to be blood relatives. Second, perhaps because of the close family units, the East Cambridge neighborhood is quiet, with few people in the street...
...liberal have been joined before in history. In the first half of the 19th century, the word liberal entered the British political vocabulary, having originated-amazingly -in Spain. (One does not wish to appear a snob, effete or otherwise, in these matters, but Spain hardly seems a proper background for a word destined to play so large a role in the public life of the democracies.) This immigrant word, liberal, found the term radical already flourishing in British politics. For a couple of decades, liberal and radical were used interchangeably by members of a large Whig faction to describe themselves...