Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a few days before, President-elect Gonzalez had suavely assured newsmen that not more than a few political prisoners were still behind bars. Lola showed me documents proving that more than 1,200 still rot in the filth of Paraguay's jails. If I wanted to see for myself, Lola said, she could arrange to slip me into the Asuncion jail as a visitor...
...Behind the Bars. The jail is a dark, dank, one-story building surrounding a dirty, unpaved patio. At least 500 men were packed in that patio. Some were crippled veterans of last year's civil war. Along the walls the sick lay in the sun. Over all hung the stench of the prison's single latrine...
...Czechs, now behind 2-0, came back to win the doubles. Playing his second singles, against Jaroslav Drobny, Adrian Quist had a chance to clinch the matches. But age told: he got off to a good start, only to lose, 6-8, 3-6, 18-16, 6-3, 7-5. That left Australia's Davis Cup chances in the hands of Billy Sidwell. He polished off Czech Cernik in straight sets, 7-5, 6-4, 6-2. That spelled victory for Australia...
This week, only three games separated the four first-division American League clubs. The. invisible wires that held up ancient Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics had unraveled a bit; the A's dropped from second to fourth, behind the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. Manager Bucky Harris had desperately shaken up his in & out Yankees after losing four straight games (the new first baseman: Outfielder Tommy Henrich), and sent to Newark for 24-year-old Pitcher Bob Porterfield. Rookie Porterfield won two of his first three games...
...award committees were polishing up the citations for next month's announcement of the 1948 winners. Nobody was telling, yet, who had won-and medical men were busily speculating. One who knows for sure who the winners will be is Mrs. Mary Lasker, vice president and dynamo behind the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Mrs. Lasker puts up the cash, but the winners are picked by three organizations: the American Public Health Association, the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, the Planned Parenthood Federation...