Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME covers were chosen because they were the only form in which so many pictures of world personalities were available. Czechs see very few pictures of world personalities these days. All they see are behind-the-Iron-Curtain personalities. The exhibit drew more crowds than ever before. We're not going to protest because this is the kind of minor day-to-day trouble you have running an American library in this part of the world. I'd have to be making protests every other...
...most important result of the three-power talks was a new public invitation to Russia (which the Russians accepted at week's end) to try once more for an Austrian peace treaty. Behind this was a faint implication that the Russians (whose Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky arrived this week in Manhattan) could have another go at a German treaty...
...leader. Such a transition is not accomplished without pain and tension. Part of Sir Oliver's job is to ease the pain, to save face for his government. In the recent monetary crisis that led to the pound's devaluation (see above), Sir Oliver performed, behind the scenes, a masterly job of transmitting the U.S. pressure for devaluation in a way that cost Britain a minimum of dignity. In the style of the King's letter, Sir Oliver did it with diligence, discretion and circumspection...
Later that day, he told the court, he sneaked down behind the reviewing stand where he met Rankovich. They discussed details of the plotted coup d'etat...
British Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin, winding up talks in Washington this week, was leaving behind a personal memento: his lower eyetooth, yanked a fortnight ago. Well-worn, silver-filled, double-rooted, but slightly smaller than the average, the Bevin tooth will be enshrined at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, along with the bridgework-of Japan's General Tomoyulci (the "Tiger of Malaya") Yamashlta, hanged for war crimes...