Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Asia Writer Dwight Martin is now standing by for possible reassignment to the Far East. As a TIME correspondent in Shanghai, Formosa and Hong Kong in 1948-49, he absorbed much of the background for the current crisis...
Surgeon's Knife. "Nothing must stand in your way," warns Miss Carlyle. "If you are convinced the family is a detriment to your success, please don't hesitate to keep them in the background. After marriage, you can see your parents during the day- alone." As for friends, "appraise calmly whether your friend or friends aid or hinder you in your objective . . . Examine the true state of affairs with a surgeon's knife. Your relationship [may be] a cancerous growth which should be removed...
Fast Rise. He first met Kelley Anderson five years ago when Anderson, raising money for Boston's Community Chest fund, hit him for a contribution. Smith was impressed by Kelley Anderson's background, and two years later Anderson joined New England as a director. Anderson, who first learned finance from his farmer-banker father, worked his way through college, then became an errand boy in an engineering firm because "there wasn't much choice about jobs...
...Background For War, a department heading which old-Timers will recall, returned to TIME last week in a new guise. In our May 1, 1939 issue it was introduced as a new, occasional department, dedicated to the proposition that world war was close at hand and that readers would understand it better if we reviewed the events that led up to it. Except for one later installment, it was discontinued after the war began. This time its use will be to tell about the places, the people, the weapons, etc. that form the background of this...
...Columbus, Ohio, police juvenile officers warned teen-age clubs to beware of "Communist agitators," and be suspicious of "any new member of a group whose background is not an open book." ¶In McKeesport, Pa., the city council readied an ordinance requiring registration of "anyone who engages in activities destined to promote the principles of Communism." Maximum penalty for violation: a $100 fine, 30 days' jail, or both. ¶ In Houston, Texas, a marauding gang laid down a midnight rock barrage on the apartment of James J. Green, state secretary of the Communist Party, accidentally pelting the neighbors...