Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Against this background, each candidate tried in his own way to put his name upon the New Deal legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose picture still hangs on the wall of any county's judge, clerk or sheriff's office...
...campaign was fought out against a background of widespread public contentment with U.S. history's most remarkable stretch of prosperity-prosperity for which the Republicans doggedly claimed credit. From 1921 to the end of 1928, under Republican Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, real per capita national income had climbed by a heady 30%.*In June 1928 the Republican Convention in Kansas City chose a nominee who seemed superbly equipped to carry on the Republican prosperity: Secretary of Commerce Herbert Clark Hoover, 53, a self-made, wealthy, Iowa-born engineer who was the most admired member of Coolidge...
Even minor details about Al Smith and his campaign-his dudish brown derby, his Sidewalks of New York campaign song, the Bowery touches in his speech ("raddio," "horspital," etc.)-grated on Americans west of the Hudson River, emphasizing for them his alien, big-city background. Kansas' William Allen White, widely heeded editor of the Emporia Gazette, expressed the fears and suspicions of a broad, bipartisan segment of the U.S. when he wrote that the "whole puritan civilization, which has built a sturdy, orderly nation, is threatened by Smith...
...years (66 trillion miles) away. Tuned to the 21-centimeter waves (1,420 megacycles) that come from cold hydrogen in interstellar space, the telescope is so set up that it points for a short time at the target star, then at an empty region beside it. The system eliminates background "noise," and the balance of the signal should contain any message that might be coming from one of the star's planets...
...voluntarily gave up to make way for Reston. "I didn't retreat," says Krock. "I merely withdrew to a previously prepared position." In that position he turns out his editorial-page column four times a week, and he does it in precisely his own way, drawing on a background of nearly four decades of political reporting and tapping a lode of sources equaled by few in U.S. journalism...