Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's Barnard College for girls had always expected big things of Judith Coplon. She majored in history, was managing editor of the college paper, graduated cum laude in 1943. Said her class yearbook: "Deeply philosophical about the fundamentals of life ... an astute analytical mind lurks behind a baby face and emotional brown eyes." Judith joined the economic warfare section of the Department of Justice, rose fast enough to justify her classroom promise. Her job was analyzing the records of foreign agents registering for activities...
...many ways, Martha was a fine helpmeet. When one of Ray's many wives-a Mrs. Myrtle Young-went to the Chicago cops and complained that Ray had taken her savings, steel-nerved Martha stood behind her and winked significantly at the desk sergeant. The sergeant advised Myrtle to see a psychiatrist; she died soon afterward of a cerebral hemorrhage...
...burbling of the American governor is one of the thoughts behind the savage crack that one honest, deeply anti-Fascist Munich businessman made to me: "Despite all the reeducation, sometimes it seems that Military Government is determined to convince Germans again that they really are a superior race...
...Very Rev. Hewlett ("The Red Dean") Johnson, still talking about his last trip around the Soviet Union (in a plane which Moscow placed at his disposal), once more insisted that everything was just fine behind the Iron Curtain. "They told me there was complete freedom for their churches," he burbled happily. "I am not saying 'new liberty,' because the same liberty existed before the war. [Now the Russians] have re-emphasized...
...world. "And if, over the past three years, our nation has dealt with the Soviet Union on a basis that has been firm but that, for the most part, avoided provocation, it is largely because our Christian people have, on the one hand, seen the danger lying behind beguiling Communist propaganda, but have also seen that there was no inevitability...