Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...surprised," said Connally irascibly, "that the learned Senator from Illinois, with all his academic background . . . for the sake of a few, little, nasty soiled votes-little, dirty votes all covered with slime and corruption-for the sake of a few of that kind of votes would advocate a bill such as this...
...world's greatest collections of bird and animal recordings. Muffled in an old tweed coat, he carries his recording equipment from the Scottish moors to the Salisbury Plain, "creeping like a criminal," he says, to capture the call of the grass warbler. Badgered by such background noises as airplanes, trains, barking dogs and high winds, he has triumphantly recorded the moorland cry of the greenshank and the "singing" of the seal on the spray-splashed rocks off the Pembrokeshire coast. He is postponing his retirement at least until he can get on wax the elusive stone curlew...
...Samuel Dacke Harkness, 66, grew up in a background where theology was orthodox and strict. The son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister, young Sam earned a doctor's degree from Missouri Valley College and was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1908. But his experiences in the ministry soon began to jar loose some of the orthodox rivets in his Presbyterianism...
Despite his thorough background in teaching and school administration, Adams knew he would find that following George Zook was no easy job. Since 1934, Zook had seen that omnibus organization grow from 269 to 1,093 member groups, representing most of the important U.S. public-school systems, private and state-supported colleges and universities, and education societies. Under Zook, the council also became a strong bridge between U.S. educational institutions and the U.S. Government, had one of the most respected independent voices in all U.S. education policymaking. Two measures that had strong A.C.E. support: the Mead bill for G.I. student...
...luncheon, Sir Geoffrey and Rykens politely questioned Babb about his background. "But it was plain," Babb related afterward, "that they already knew everything about me. So I wasn't sure what was up." Next day Babb found out. He was asked if he would like to be president of Unilever's U.S. subsidiary, Lever Bros.-a job which has been vacant ever since Lever Bros, and Charles Luckman parted company three months ago (TIME...