Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three days, Mother Shatis appeared satisfied with the fair, blue-eyed child she had been given as her own. She took Blue Eyes back with her to the mud-brick village where she lived with her husband. Panayiota stayed behind with the dark boy who, she was convinced, was not hers...
...phrase "off the record" gave a new boost to an old, and often helpful, journalistic practice. It permitted top Government officials to let down their hair before the press -without getting into trouble in the process. By giving a frank-and unquotable-explanation of the background behind official actions, bigwigs had often helped reporters do a better job of interpreting the news. But the handy phrase has long since gotten out of hand. Last week Managing Editor Norman E. Isaacs of the St. Louis Star-Times charged that editors who persisted in kowtowing to "off the record" were "frequently guilty...
Every seat in the columned auditorium at Madrid's Club Mercantil had been taken, but still the people came. Mink-coated ladies and threadbare scholars jostled for places behind the doors, crowded onto the balcony overlooking the hall. They waited patiently for the wiry little man with unruly white hair to step to the gold desk on the dais. When he did, they burst into cheers. They clapped and shouted so long that they seemed almost hysterical. The little man smiled, slowly raised his arms for silence. Then he began to speak...
...around. He had been a proud and fastidious figure, quoted and copied everywhere. When he lectured at the University of Madrid, students jammed his classes. He was called "the philosophical Pope of Spain"; and when he went to his favorite coffeehouse, it was with a crowd of disciples tagging behind. There, perched on the edge of his chair, he would hold forth each night, spinning phrases like sparks from a pinwheel, sometimes until the sun came...
...Northern Presbyterians, reported Communist soldiers not only attending Presbyterian missionaries' lectures, but also expressing surprise that Christianity teaches brotherly love and the brotherhood of man. But missionary leaders are well aware of what is likely to happen to such tolerant policies when the Communists have their military victory behind them. Said Dr. Ballou on the subject last week: "I've got more hope than I've got faith...