Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harbored in the Western zones," live in "wild camps" which are little more than mud holes-simply because there is no more room for them in the regular camps. Among the refugees, Communist agitators are busy extolling the glories of East Germany which they have left behind. Cried one rabble-rouser in a speech at Wiirzburg recently: "We have only one road-back home, barefooted and in our underclothes...
Gunfight. When the party reached the tiny, treeless Plaza San Martin, dominated by an equestrian statue of the Argentine hero, two military policemen rounded the corner. A shot was fired. More soldiers raced up, more bullets flew. Echandia and some of his followers dropped to the ground; others scrambled behind the statue. After five minutes, an army officer pulled up in a car and stopped the shooting...
After the plutonium has been formed in the pile's uranium rods, it must be separated from the uranium by a chemical operation which is delicate and difficult, because the rods are fiercely radioactive. All the manipulations in the refining process must be performed by remote control from behind massive shields. Every bit of apparatus that has been used in refining plutonium is poisoned and dangerous to handle...
...three of the varsity matches the Crimson had to come from behind to win. Four of the five contests with the Union Boat Club went to five sets...
...freshman match was one-sided, with the Crimson taking all but one contest in straight sets. In the one closely fought '53 match, it was the MIT player who came from behind to tie the Crimson man before losing in the fifth...