Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ready for War. Tacho had a shotgun propped behind his desk. He intended to be prepared on all fronts. Last week his flyers took delivery in Miami of AT6 trainer planes bought by the dictator after the U.S. recognized Nicaragua last May. In the Dominican Republic, the eastern end of the Caribbean dictators' axis, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's mechanics were busy scraping the Dominican insignia off three P-38s. They were ticketed for Nicaragua, where Tacho had pilots waiting to fly them...
...baby-faced Lincoln. A Charles of the Ritz cosmetician touched up the wives of the candidates with purple lipstick, and a Chestnut Street barber advertised "television shaves." Singer James Melton's beard photographed as blackest of the week-with quick-footed Commentator Ben Grauer running a whisker behind. Grauer grumbled: "I have a very serious problem. I put on makeup, but people still say 'Why doesn't Grauer shave...
...strawberry festival flavor -a homy mixture of galluses, shirtsleeves, palmetto fans, odd hats and lax faces. Most televiewers lost the thread of Senator Wherry's address, because of the woman in the background who blandly read a newspaper. Other strikingly human glimpses: a girl delegate smothering a yawn behind her compact during a dull speech; the grave face of a Puerto Rican delegate; a wide-eyed little boy in the gallery...
Easy Beat. Pennsylvania's crew, hitting up an energetic 36, flashed out in front. Cornell was right behind. Ulbrickson's long-armed, long-legged men were using a lot less energy and staying very close. At the mile mark, still doing a smooth 30, Washington was in the lead. Navy's beef-trust crew was up to 34 and not gaining an inch. After two miles, the Huskies stepped up their beat a little and pulled away to win easily by 2½ lengths. California, an old rival, was second...
...cheery studio on London's Tite Street, he worked doggedly at his portraits, muttering behind his easel when things didn't work out the way he wanted, "Gainsborough would have done it! ... Gainsborough would have done it." Sometimes he held his sitters' attention by painting his own nose red or pretending to eat his cigar...