Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record, Dewey said simply and reassuringly that the U.S. is solidly behind "the labors of our bipartisan delegation at Paris and specifically its insistence on a prompt lifting of the blockade of Berlin." Said Dewey: "The nations of the world can rest assured that the American people are in fact united in their foreign policy and will firmly and unshakably uphold the United Nations...
Every other plane flies at 6,000 feet on the south corridor inbound to Berlin. The planes ahead and behind it are at 5,000 feet with four minutes' flying time between them and the planes on the higher level...
...with his government displayed by the Japanese man in the street. The U.S. had given Japan a new constitution, new slogans, new faces. It had not changed the real constitution of Japan-the skein of bribery which had held the country before the war and which continued to exist behind MacArthur's upright back...
Died. Ted Horn, 38, veteran auto racer, three times American Automobile Association national champion (1946-48), who was never behind fourth for nine straight years at Indianapolis, but never won; of injuries suffered in a race in Du Quoin...
...smoke-bomb apparently had been hidden behind a row of books on a shelf some time before it went off. Workers in the department had seen no one near the shelf when or immediately before the bomb detonated...