Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headmaster rustles in in his robes of office. A third prepositor goes to a cupboard, from which he takes the birch rod and ceremoniously hands it to the headmaster. The headmaster approaches the kneeling boy and, holding the handle of the birch with both hands, smites the bare behind of the boy six times. He then hands the birch back to the prepositor and rustles out of the room again. No word has been spoken...
Fatal to Free Peoples. Next day the committee listened to Acheson behind closed doors. After the session, to settle any doubts as to his position on Russia, Chairman Connally released an excerpt from the Acheson testimony: "It is my view that Communism as a doctrine is economically fatal to free society and to human rights and fundamental freedoms. Communism as an aggressive factor in world conquest is fatal to independent governments and to free peoples...
Seldom since the war had a diplomatic document been drafted in greater secrecy. For more than six months, in Washington and London, experts of seven nations, like diligent sculptors, had chipped away at it behind closed doors. They were still not ready to unveil their handiwork, the North Atlantic Alliance. But last week, the State Department started a sales campaign to tell the U.S. what its general form would be. To newsmen, the department handed out a 4,000-word brochure, titled "Building the Peace-Collective Security in the North Atlantic Area...
...says France's Robert Marjolin, "am an international official." He is so international, in fact, that his own countrymen have accused him, behind their hands, of being more European than French. As permanent secretary general (i.e., top man) of OEEC (Organization for European Economic Cooperation), boyish, 37-year-old Robert Marjolin is in the first rank of a new group of civil servants, whose master is not a state but the idea of international cooperation. Last week he arrived in Washington with 18 French, British, Dutch, Belgian and Austrian aides to help ECA put its case to the 81st...
...blacks bore down on some Indians patiently queueing for a bus, and began hurling stones and broken bottles. From there the rioting spread to Durban's Indian quarter in the heart of the city, where other bands of blacks smashed windows, pillaged and looted. Indians huddled in terror behind their shops...