Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bradley left no doubt that the Army would stand solidly behind the trimmed-down budget Harry Truman had sent to Congress. Though the Army had lost about $1 billion in the process, he said: ". . . I would much prefer to take some military risk rather than have to weather the dangers of an economic bust...
...right side of the crowded hearing room last week sat representatives of U.S. industry; on the left, representatives of the nation's unions. Directly behind the 13-man labor committee, chairmanned by Utah's bald and scholarly Elbert Duncan Thomas, sat Mrs. Taft placidly knitting on a sweater for a grandson. The expression on her face was a gauge of the battle's progress. Most of the time Martha Taft looked as if she thought it was going all right...
...better than 'Fort Apache.''' Another voice: '''Fort Apache,' hell. 'Unconquered' will look like a scramble for peanuts compared to this." First voice: "Right! And through it all there'll stand Ingrid all in white, waving her men on with her flag and a different colored sunset behind her for each shot." Second voice again: "It'll be galorous, to coin a phrase. And considering' we ain't got no Indians...
...freshman hockey squad is the only undefeated major '52 team this year. With five wins and one tie behind them in six starts, the Yardlings face their severest competition this term...
When the freshmen played the Bruins in December, the game was not an easy win. The Crimson, with its usual lack of practice, was behind in the first period. It exploded only in the third and finished first...