Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Armies. Battalions of warriors streamed last week toward the tariff battle field in the U. S. Senate. Warriors bearing the scar of a hundred elections came in troops, their ammunition trains lumbered up behind them. Their lobbyist commissary workers dragged to the field the impedimenta of battle...
...forces stout-hearted to the fray, casting side glances at stragglers (those Republicans who every now and then hinted some doubt as to the sacredness of their cause). Across the aisle, Field Marshal Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina urged on the troops of low-tariff-for-the-consumers. Behind him strode the body of the Democrats and their allies, Republican irregulars trooping after General Borah (of Idaho). This army too had its stragglers, Democrats here and there greedy for tariff spoils to enrich their home states. So all came at last to battle. Skirmish. The first clash echoed only...
...Behind the Lines. Republican Major General Watson left the battle lines and, rushing to a radio microphone, broadcasted reassuringly to where the home fires were being kept burning. Excerpts from this notable oratory...
...accustomed to throw bombs and assassinate their political opponents, but also did not hesitate to slit the gullet of any of its own members who were "untrustworthy." Anxious to wipe out Der Konsul once and for all, German police arrested 40 suspects last week. Members of the German Reichstag, behind hastily reglazed windows, prepared to vote heavier penalties for persons "guilty of offenses against the security of the Republic...
...seeing his name in big headlines and hearing it thundered from the stands, drilling with his teammates in the new Army jersey of gold with a red stripe, Cadet Cagle must last week have realized two things about Army football this autumn: 1) the Army is about a week behind other teams in practice; 2) the Army has what looks like the hardest schedule of any team this year -Harvard, Yale, South Dakota, Illinois, Ohio Wesleyan, Notre Dame, Stanford...