Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University delegates to the national American Veterans Committee convention, concluded in Cleveland Sunday, overwhelmingly lined up behind an AVC decision expelling Communist Party members from all chapters...
...general escorted us to our hut, apologizing again for the rough quarters. Through the bright moonlight Chinese air force planes droned continuously overhead, some with bombs which dropped with a heavy concussion, some with supplies to be parachuted to encircled General Huang. Artillery, which was dug in behind the village, kept up an intermittent fire-first came the muzzle blast, then the scream of the shell overhead, then a distant crunch as the shell exploded...
...favorite drink at Williams is a Purple Passion (gin plus "anything else behind the bar that's not quite finished off"). Princeton's drink is the Sea Breeze (which also begins with gin, then gets out of hand). At Yale, a girl can get away with "two suits and two dressy dresses"; at Cornell, she should have a fall suit, a cocktail dress, a sweater & skirt, an evening dress, walking shoes, dancing shoes, an evening wrap and a warm coat...
...record for any man-made object except rockets. So the U.S. Army Signal Corps announced last week. The balloon, released over Belmar, N.J. carried 2½ pounds of instruments which radioed data on atmospheric pressure, temperature, etc. The maximum altitude was deduced from the pressure signals; the balloon disappeared behind clouds at about 40,000 feet, was not seen again...
When a surgeon performs an operation to remove gallstones, one of the most important things is to get them all out. If he leaves any behind, it may mean another operation...