Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this part of the Upper Mississippi Valley as advertised in your excellent paper. The sumac along the river bluffs is in excellent shape, "the greatest corn crop in history" awaits picking, down in Nine Mile Island slough the advance guard of "honkers," a small band of mallards, are settled behind some willows to feed, and out somewhere beyond Flint Hill the windows of a rural school are adorned with cutout paper pumpkins. RICHARD P. BISSELL Dubuque, Iowa
...carefully guarded back room, behind the huge stage of Paris' Palais de Chaillot, representatives of six nations-Canada, China, Belgium, Argentina, Colombia and Syria-tried for over a week to work out a compromise on Berlin. (The press called them the "neutral nations," although they were all, as the Irish say, neutral against Russia.) The Russians still wanted the Berlin case thrown out of the U.N. Security Council...
...night, behind screaming sirens, the press parties were hustled to hotels. They jostled for a chance at a shower bath, grabbed drinks and dinner before covering the evening show. They were earning their money and probably their king-sized expense accounts-although most would have been working just as hard at home. But if the 1948 trains were the last of their kind, to be outmoded in 1952 by television, that would be all right with a good many reporters...
Citation ran like a railroad train. When Jockey Eddie Arcaro pushed the throttle, Citation, who runs with great economy, came whistling down the stretch, using just enough steam to stay two lengths ahead of his nearest rival, Phalanx, and pick up $75,600. It put him just behind Stymie ($911,335), the biggest money-winning horse of all time. Citation's total...
...Forming behind a depleted band and flashlight-toting Sergeant James Toomey of the University police, early marchers launched the pre-game celebration at 7:15 p.m. in a circuit of the Yard, punctuated at every step by exploding blank cartridges...