Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sitting room. Newsmen had just got the flash of Tom Dewey's concession. A few minutes later the President invited the newsmen into his parlor. As each came by he shook hands and said, "Thank you, thank you." Harry Truman's palm was moist, and behind the thick glasses, tears rimmed his eyes...
While flashbulbs popped, Dewey signed the registration book, then strode to the polling booth. "You fellows all set?" he asked amiably. The babble was deafening. Dewey blew his nose, flicked something out of his eye, and disappeared behind the curtain. He emerged grinning. After Mrs. Dewey voted, he remarked: "Well, that's two votes we've got anyway...
...seemed to have the presidency so surely within his grasp, only to have it elude him. With his own hand, he wrote out the telegram to Truman: "My heartiest congratulations ... I urge all Americans to unite behind you in support of every effort to keep our nation strong and free...
Dartmouth enters the game with two straight defeats behind it--a two touchdown loss to Yale last week and a 39 to 0 shellacking two weeks ago by the same BU team that beat the Freshmen...
...Wayne cannot stagnate. As they wind their way across the Panhandle the two men become more and more distraught and their enmity breaks the surface when Wayne threatens to hang two deserters. Clift protects the men, turns against Wayne and takes over the herd, leaving his former partner behind...