Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continued Nazi sympathy is squarely the AMG's fault. When the military government took over, it vigorously began to clean out Nazis from public office, and tried installing people who were both anti-Nazi and anti-socialist. They ran out of these pretty quickly. Rather than threw any weight behind the reasonably left-wing Social Democratic party, which included some of Hitler's strongest opposition, the AMG started putting back Nazis. Plants were returned to their wartime directors in a "move to promote a free enterprise economy...
...last line of the above paragraph might seem to indicate that Mr. Behrman has some thesis or other hiding behind the skirts of his winking Muse, but such is not the case. The plot of "I Know My Love" offers about as much opportunity for character-study as an hour with the old family album. What dimension the Chanler family has is due mainly to the embellishments given it by the actors...
...Sitting behind me Saturday was a particularly raneous grandstand quarterback. He knew little about the rules of football and still loss about the Harvard team he was presumably rooting for. But that didn't stop him from criticizing both players and coaches freely...
...even more irksome was the criticism of the players-and it was hero that the grandstand quarterback displayed himself in all his ignorance. The particular member of the species who was behind mo reached two major conclusions during the course of the game, and he was not averse to letting others know about them. First, he thought that the Harvard quarterbacks should call more end runs. Second, he thought that Harvard should use fewer passes...
...John Bigelow (1817-1911), editor with William Cullen Bryant of the N.Y. Evening Post, Civil War consul to France and one of the founders of the Republican Party, was a lifelong man-behind-the-scenes. Historians had left him there...