Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord Lothian held a press conference the second day after his arrival. Embassy attendants goggled as he sat nonchalantly in a rattan chair on the portico beside the wide formal garden behind the Chancellery, answering reporters' questions directly if he could, with disarming evasions if he could...
Grand strategy of the Polish Armies was to retire slowly, conserve manpower, shorten their lines. Their Western stand was to be on a line running south from Torun to Czestochowa. From there South to behind Teschen they had a fortified front which the German divisions must crack or outflank...
...German planes dropped soldiers (with parachutes) behind Polish lines, where they reconnoitred, reported back to their army via small, portable radios. Poles captured them right & left, gave 'them short shrift. Over bombed Warsaw, the Poles erected a poor imitation of London's "balloon barrage," claimed that a German pilot got caught...
Then the picket boat showed up. Marksman Peskin, his trigger-finger tensed, his eyes seeking the quarry, scrambled up the liner's Jacob's ladder, followed by the two guardsmen. By this time the lion, bored and weary, had curled up behind a divan, was peacefully snoozing. It was not the moment for the niceties of hunting etiquette. Marksman Peskin was taking aim, when the Amazone's Captain Nyhoff nervously reminded him that a luckless shot in the gunpowder magazine might blast them all to kingdom-come. Swallowing his professional pride, Marksman Peskin inched closer, then fired...
Meantime, terror harried the gunpowder-loaded, animal-ridden Amazone. For eight hours the lion, which had breached its cage in the night, had been padding fancy-free about the decks, while passengers cowered behind barricaded cabin doors. By massing furniture the 30-man crew finally managed to confine him to the forward deck...