Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Albert Benjamin Chandler, Kentucky's happy man, is no mere country clown. A swift and educated brain, a vaulting ambition and one of the sharpest instincts in the U. S. lie behind his automatic incandescent smile, his hot-palmed handshake...
...that Poland was subjugated and Germany was on such excellent terms with all her neighbors-including Britain and France, as far as he was concerned-Mr. Hitler wondered what all the shooting was about on the Western Front. At this point Adolf Hitler figuratively vanished into the drapery behind him and a composite character made up of Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, Gustav Stresemann, Neville Chamberlain, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Cordell Hull suddenly took his place. The change of word and wind was nothing short of fantastic. Pacific, idealistic, hopeful, tenderly humane and sweetly vague, Herr Hitler turned his back...
Whether or not the Kremlin was preparing to take almost defenseless Bessarabia from Rumania like candy from a baby, and regardless of how much truth lay behind sensational reports of joint action in the Near East being contemplated by Russia and Turkey to overwhelm Syria, Palestine and Iraq, it remained an arresting fact that in Moscow the official tone was markedly anti-British, anti-French and pro-German...
...Japanese to believe that they were still following the same old no-frontal-attack theories, the Chinese destroyed every rail line, every road. The Japanese blithely advanced over this torn-up area until they were in the worst military position known to man: on a thin front without communications behind. That was when the Chinese struck. The Japanese had nothing...
Prominent undergraduates formed a "Student Committee to Save Harvard Education," got an approving send-off from the Crimson. Meanwhile Harvard's entire faculty began to hold extraordinary sessions behind closed doors to debate the affair. Conservative Harvard sentiment was summed up by Mathematics Professor Marshall Harvey Stone, son of U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone: "I believe the situation now existing is unhealthy to the point of gravity...