Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this-plus 23 other arrests and two other interludes in the clink-were behind him. After such escapades, Bossy, three times mayor of Newburyport, hadn't been able to be re-elected since 1935, though he had tried six times...
...people-unlike those who consider themselves middle class-use the back door to come & go, reserving the front door for important occasions like funerals. If the canvassers found a front door opening stiffly and creakily, they were sure of finding a worker's family and pro-Labor sentiments behind it. But if the door moved easily on smooth-worn hinges, they were apt to find a lower middle class family and Conservative sympathies...
...rocky hills which had been untouched by the plow for generations. Near Cerveteri, along the rolling hills of Via Aurelia, on a plot of 124 meager acres which had produced nothing but blackberries for years, the land-hungry were fiercely hacking away weeds and shrubs; one old man, behind a pair of snow-white oxen, turned a fresh furrow in the fallow earth to stake his claim...
Near Cutro, a peasant paused behind his plow and explained how the system works: "This land belongs to the heirs of the noble Filippo Albani. They live far from Calabria. Cavaliere Francesco Cosentino rents land from them. He is a wealthy gentleman who sits in an armchair in Crotone. When we take off our hats to him, he seldom answers. We don't deal with Cosentino direct; he rents his land out to Francesco Corradi...
Little claims he has always "been crazy about old Fords." This is the third one he has owned since coming to Harvard. He commuted in a 1925 model during his freshman year and last year discovered a '25 touring car going to ruin in the parking lot behind Winthrop House...