Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...means," snapped Connally, "a favorable background, warm in the winter and cool in the summer...
...These are high-flown expressions," rejoined Connally, "designed to create the right kind of climate-if the Senator knows what is meant by that statement." Massachusetts' Republican Saltonstall came unexpectedly to Connally's aid. The words merely created "a climatic background in which treaties can be made," he elaborated hopefully...
...project would be in continuing conflict with the Houses, around which college life in the future must be centered. This motion was proposed by James F. Hornig '50 and Herbert P. Gleason '50. Gleason is not a Council member but served on the Council's committee to investigate the background of the bequest of Allston Burr '39, from which the $250,000 needed to build the Varsity Club will be drawn. Four Council members supported this plan in the final vote...
...Stokes presents detailed accounts of the background of controversies that are still making news. The question of a U.S. diplomatic representative at the Vatican first came up in 1779, when John Adams wrote the Continental Congress that he hoped it would "never send a minister to His Holiness," nor receive a Roman Catholic nuncio in the U.S. But when Pius IX was elected Pope in 1846, his reputation for liberalism made U.S. Protestants so enthusiastic that the event was celebrated with nondenominational mass meetings in New York and Philadelphia...
...good. The trouble all stems from the point (early in the picture) when the pitiable plot is poured over the documentary background like a thick, opaque syrup over pancakes. This movie succeeds in throwing part of the background into obscurity, and nearly all of the remainder into a particularly sticky context. Montgomery Clift and Douglas each find girl friends in Berlin. Clift, who has sensitive sympathetic channels, is overcome by the signs of the stricken city and is drawn to his girl to the extent of wishing to take her into Holy Matrimony. She, however, is simply deluding...