Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...BACKGROUND...
...beginning to understand that U.S. troubles abroad have not come from a deficiency of clever commercials ; they have come from a deficiency of right action, from wrong action or from no action at all. U.S. words, like everybody else's, would always be interpreted against the background of U.S. deeds...
...seems to me that the article misses . . . one of the chief reasons for the financial predicament in which colleges and schools find themselves today, and that is that in a real sense every boy today in college, regardless of the financial background of his parents, is on a scholarship . . . For example, if the average cost per boy to the college today is $1,200 and a parent pays the top tuition asked by the college, which may be $600, then his son is receiving in a real sense a scholarship of $600 from the college...
What were U.S. citizens doing and thinking last week about this new crisis in their lives? Was the U.S. ready for it? Would the U.S. economy be put on a war basis? What was Congress' reaction? What was the background of the conflict? These are some of the questions that War In Asia tries to answer...
With relish, Lawyer Nowell started digging into Beulah's background. He made Beulah's whimpering mother tell how she had taken her daughter to juke joints at the age of 13, using her as a stalking-horse for men. Beulah had never known that love could mean happiness. For her it was only the assortment of men-big or little, decent or nasty-that her mother picked up. But nevertheless she thought her mother was kind: "For one thing, she only turned the nicest ones over to me, the businessmen...