Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actor Rex ("Sexy Rexy") Harrison went to court to get a reduction in the $24,000-a-year alimony he was paying next-to-latest wife Noel; but Noel appealed, with a protest of her own: he was $28,000 behind in payments...
...rift stopped there. At the conference table, Yugoslavia and five other Communist-dominated countries stood squarely behind Russia's Andrei Vishinsky when he took a high-handed line indicating that the Communists intended to keep Western nations off Europe's greatest waterway. This policy would cost the Yugoslavs and the. other Danube countries dearly. From the heights above Belgrade one could scan the Danube in vain for signs of the heavy traffic it had carried before...
Three days later, at his own favorite distance-5,000 meters-he finished two-tenths of a second behind Belgium's Gaston Reiff. Both Reiff and Zatopek broke the previous Olympic record...
...Reinhardt's old Faust scenery had been ripped off the open stage of the Archbishop's riding school behind Salzburg's Festspielhaus. In its place workers had put up a simple Ionic-columned portico for this year's big show: an ambitious production of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice by ambitious Conductor Herbert von Karajan (TIME...
...Karajan had the help of two crack stage directors, Hans Caspar Nehar and Oskar Fritz Schuh, who had studied under Reinhardt in Berlin. They gave the production two notable Reinhardt touches. After Eurydice's funeral, the mountain wall which towers up behind the stage came alive with song; a chorus of 65 demons had been strung along its side. In the following scene, in which Orpheus arrives in Elysium, the theater's canvas roof was rolled back, revealing a starlit summer...