Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayell never heard of perspective? The keyhole is behind Dr. Menninger, while the key is in front...
There was also little question but that a grateful Administration would look on labor's new demands with a kindly eye. Leaving the A.F.L. convention in Cincinnati, Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin reminded newsmen that wages of some 16 million workers were now trailing 9% behind the Bureau of Labor Statistics' figures on the cost of living. Labor, he implied, could count on his help to close...
...75th governor of Georgia and the youngest in the U.S., Hummon used the opportunity to shout out the first rebel yell at Harry Truman since the election. "I am proud to say," rasped Hummon, "that [my] administration will throw the full force of your state's governmental machinery behind our Senators and Congressmen in their fight against any anti-Southern measures that may be brought before the next session of Congress...
...Ahead and in some hills to the south, puffs of white billowed where shells and bombs found targets. In a village which had been retaken from the Communists the day before, an old peasant woman squatted at a roadside pond unconcernedly whacking at her laundry with a wooden paddle. Behind her on the mud wall of her burned-out hut the Reds, before they were beaten back, had splashed slogans in white paint: "Fight to Nanking!", "Land for the Tillers!" and "Capture the liar Chiang alive...
...jeep trailed behind the general's as we ground in low gear across the rough ground toward a village headquarters less than three miles from the front. Jeep lights flicked on and off as the drivers tried to avoid the deeper holes. An elliptical orange moon popped over the horizon. As we neared the village we passed an artillery position. The dark forms of tanks loomed up against the sky. A 105-mm. gun directly in front suddenly cut loose, its red flash silhouetting for an instant the crouched figures of the gun crew. A pungent smell of gunpowder...