Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind the President...
...behind the President...
...addition to the Administration would be Washington's lame-duck Governor Mon C. Wallgren, who had sat right behind Harry Truman in the Senate. The word was that the President would employ Wallgren as a liaison man between the White House and his old friends in Congress...
...Behind the Iron Curtain last week, the business of being funny had struck a depression. Moscow's leading humorous weekly Krokodil had been called on the Kremlin carpet for "not fulfilling its purpose." In Poland, a Satirists' Congress was told sternly that jokes involving sex and mothers-in-law were no longer considered funny, though humor could still be drawn from the petty bourgeoisie, the bureaucrat and the speculator. Elsewhere, however, people swapped yarns just as they had before. Here & there TIME'S correspondents paused to listen...
...contest, Chase admitted, "We ought to beat them." In their first outing, the Engineers showed occasional blurts of speed, but little team coordination, and less conditioning. Most of their scores against BC came after they were hopelessly behind, and against the Eagle scrubs...