Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...defy anyone with a background of several years' employment in a mental institution to write honestly and objectively of his or her experiences without shocking someone. However, if The Caretakers is so shocking that the real moral of the book-the fact that we are all caretakers of one sort or another-is lost, that I regret...
Against the background of Soviet success in projecting the image of power and U.S. concern about that image, Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. and General Nathan Twining, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went before the Senate and House Armed Services committees to explain the new $41 billion defense budget. "The way they presented it, it was encouraging," said Georgia's Richard B. Russell, Chairman of the Senate committee. In his testimony, Gates unwrapped a big and pleasant surprise: a new U.S. intelligence estimate of future Soviet missile strength, he said, had sharply narrowed the expected "missile...
According to Henry the new plan will solve general difficult problems in the admission of foreign students. Since there will be a board composed both of Africans and Americans interviewing the applicants in their own country, the admissions officers will have more accurate information on the financial background, intellectual and personal qualifications of the students than is now possible...
Nothing for Background. The pencil newsmen tend to regard their TV colleagues as upstarts who know little more about journalism than how to plug a cable into a socket. The newspapermen resent being forced to feed their best questions to the TV competition, and they feel strongly that the camera's presence spoils the essential informality of press conferences. How can a news source say, "Now, if I may explain for your background," when mikes are open and cameras are grinding...
...England was still seething with the trial of Oscar Wilde. His unshockability has become a sophisticated and sometimes cynical 20th century attitude; but in Havelock Ellis it was a native generosity of mind. As he himself put it: "What others have driven out of consciousness or pushed into the background as being improper or obscene, I have maintained and held in honour...