Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People were spending their money with more caution; some businessmen were encountering some bumps; some wage groups had been left behind. But in general, he said, the country breathed confidence in the future. Moreover, he said, it breathed a new air of democracy...
...keep his family going, Hubert Sr. toured the state in a battered Ford, peddling a pig serum he had developed. That left the store without a pharmacist. Hubert Jr. hustled through a six months' course at the Denver School of Pharmacy, moved in behind the prescription counter (where his certificate still hangs...
Isolation. Neither highway nor railroad snowplows could cope with the storm; hard drifts formed behind them almost as soon as they had passed. Trains were halted, one after another. When the storm ended there were six passenger trains in the yards at Omaha, eight in Ogden, five at Salt Lake City, five at Cheyenne, six stalled between Sidney, Neb. and Cheyenne...
...military campaign had been a brilliant, hard-won success, highlighted by a fast three-day invasion of Egypt. Driving down the Egyptian right flank (after a feint at Gaza on the coast), the Israeli forces plunged headlong into Egypt and fought their way to El Arish, over 50 miles behind the frontier...
...pity them." Dominican friars indefatigably tried to convert Jews and thus save them from exile. They burst into synagogues to preach the Christian gospel, but rabbis thundered back the teachings of Moses. Some Jews were converted. The majority preferred to leave their homes and their wealth behind. Many Jews removed tombstones from their cemeteries and took them along into exile. Their last ships left Spain the day before Columbus sailed for the New World...