Word: backgrounded
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...title page of Volume 1 of the complete works of Bellarmine (seven volumes) in the Fordham University Library forms the background of Artist Boris Chaliapin's cover painting...
...talked of his years as a war correspondent, his career as a writer and editor and of his home and family in Moscow. Placing his hands on his knees, he then turned to one student after another and listened intently as each spoke of his plans, studies and family background...
...because the producers have hired an impressive list of expert writers, from Quentin Reynolds (The Battle of Britain), William L. Shirer (Berlin Diary) and Richard Tregaskis (Guadalcanal Diary), to Hollywood Scenarists Beirne Lay Jr. (12 O'Clock High) and Robert Pirosh (Battleground). And firmly but unobtrusively in the background is a suitably martial, original musical score written by Richard Rodgers...
Sylvia Porter sat for him for 15 hours over a period of five days in her Manhattan apartment. For the background. Koerner climbed to the top of the New York Post building "so I could see Wall Street and make blobs. The wind was fantastic and I said to myself, 'Why am I so insane?' But I wanted the blackness of the canyon, with a background of evenly lit windows. You invent...
...often as lunch is lunch, it is a business interview: "It's hello and right down to it." By 2:30, Sylvia is in her cubbyhole office at the Post (next to that of Gossipist Leonard Lyons). Her back to the filing cabinets full of background material (which she never uses), she whacks away against a 5:30 deadline. Deadline is sometimes missed in the agony of indecision. Last week Sylvia was working ahead in preparation for a planned vacation with Sumner. But even vacations are no particular rest. On a brief winter idyl in the Bahamas, sunning herself...