Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night Earl Durand stole down to the corpses, smashed their rifles, took rubber-soled boots from one, bootlaces from the other. He made a false trail up the precipice behind his boulders, then doubled back. Next day when the posse closed in on his fortress, he was not there. While they tried to trail him with bloodhounds on the mountain, while militia dragged up a howitzer, Earl Durand held up a car down on the valley road...
...story La Prensa (Press) Building, a great white flag was hoisted.From the 16-story Telefonica, Madrid's tallest building, the red-&-gold banner of the old Monarchy, now the Franco flag, invited the conquerors in. The weary Loyalist defenders backed out of their trenches, leaving their arms behind. From scattered balconies draped old Monarchist flags, mantillas with Bourbon emblems...
...noon the occupation of the city had begun. In the van were the Italian legion, behind them came the Civil Guard in their famous three-cornered hats, and behind them-truck loads & truck loads of food...
...hall. "I don't know how I did it," he kept saying. "I never did it before, and I probably never will again. Blame it on luck." Then, back on his feet again, he rolled out his singles turn with 173-166 for a 639, 75 pins behind the leader, scarcely worth marking...
...Gaelic. For Workman was Irish-bred by a Cork pubkeeper, Irish-trained in Kildare by Tim Hyde himself, Irish-owned by Sir Alex, a sometime Meath man from Navan who had put a bet on his jumper for the benefit of Navan's 10,000 citizens. Close behind Workman came 'Captain Briggs's MacMoffat, with Jockey Alder in primrose silks. As they pressed on, Kilstar blundered four jumps from home, and from then on it was nip and tuck between the green and the primrose. Over the last fence soared Workman, half a stride ahead of MacMoffat...