Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Behind the Iron Curtain, the war on the Roman Catholic Church continued. In a letter to the Czech State Prosecutor, which reached the press last week, Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran detailed what had happened to him since he was "interned" in his palace (TIME, JUNE...
Siam's incredible cheerfulness did not stop at Bangkok. It spread across the whole funnel-shaped country of 18 million people-to the farmers slogging behind lumbering carabao in the knee-deep water of the rice paddies, and to the tappers working their way down long, slanting rows of rubber trees...
...Free Greece," which the Greek national army captured last week from the retreating Red guerrillas. Pavlides and his comrades were joyfully poking around among the neat little pine-board chalets (which had housed Nico Zachariades, John Ioannides and other Communist guerrilla leaders), looking for equipment and stores left behind by the fleeing Reds. They found everything from Czech motorcycles and electric sewing machines to frilly underwear for the andartissa (female guerrillas...
...Communists in the Grammos-Vitsi area of northern Greece. German, Rumanian, British and Russian arms and ammunition were everywhere. A stone's throw from the Albanian border stood the rebels' propaganda headquarters, supplied with cameras, film processing shops, and printing plants. There was enough pliatsiko left behind to keep 400 trucks constantly on the move shifting...
...vacuum left by the abandonment of religious ritual and social ceremony has been filled by a new rite-a worship of The Rules and the strange gods behind them. 'No, I'm afraid we're right out of those-we're waiting for our quota,' says the stationer, with a mixture of exasperation and reverence for the goddess Quota that was once accorded by anxious Greek farmers to Demeter, bringer of harvests. 'I'm full up now-only eight standing inside-I can't take any more,' chants the bus conductor...