Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a Sickbed. The officers waited, then early in November called again. This time they meant business. Gallegos and Rómulo Betancourt, leader of Acción Democrádtica, were willing to bargain but they refused to accept dictation. Behind them, they hinted, were nearly half a million militant party members...
Yearning for Secrets. Degas, Valéry reported, did everything the hard way. He "concealed behind harsh and arbitrary opinions ... a despair of ever satisfying himself; his bitter and lofty views developed along with his penetrating knowledge of the masters; his yearning for the secrets he ascribed to them; his perpetual awareness of their baffling perfection...
...Young and Fair (by N. Richard Nash; produced by Vinton Freedley in association with Richard Krakeur) deals with life at a fashionable junior college for girls. And there's considerable life to deal with, for behind its trim ivied walls Brook Valley harbors more problems than an arithmetic book...
...trousers. They used no first names, but ceremoniously addressed each other as "Mr. Clothier," "Mr. Stotesbury" and "Mr. Morris." This formality extended even to the clerks. They were not permitted to smoke during banking hours, nor did they work in shirtsleeves. They seldom wanted to. The correct young men behind the counters were usually the same cool young bloods who danced at the Assemblies. "Joining Girard," as one employee said, "was like joining a good club...
...Macy & Co., Inc. 13 years ago, he got an idea. A showman with a small boy's taste for shows, Jean Gros, 54, had spent years building up a marionette road-show business. He had lost it all staging a grand opera with puppets (75 singers were hidden behind the curtain). He decided that if he could get huge balloon figures like Macy's, and somehow design them to fit under trolley wires, he could stage such parades on any Main Street...