Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that the "news" was weeks old, the delegates roared applause after each reading. When the pitch was right, Reuther asked them to give his executive board authority to levy a special $1-a-week-for-twelve-weeks strike assessment on all employed U.A.W. members. From their seats behind long, banquet-like tables, the delegates shouted approval. It meant a war chest of some $10 million...
...Bridges' union provided further proof of its party-lining last week in a new publication, Report from Europe, based on a rosy "rank & file" journey behind the Iron Curtain...
Marianthi's first talk with Papouas was interrupted by an enemy air raid. Side by side they dropped behind a boulder for shelter. It was love...
...large garage behind his comfortable 32-room Italian Renaissance home, he maintains the offices of the Harold Lloyd Corp. There President Lloyd and 15 employees take care of scattered real-estate holdings and handle an occasional movie. The last thing he acted in was Preston Sturges' The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. Howard Hughes, who bought it, is still cutting...
...into their very own Clarence House), Britain's matronly Princess Elizabeth and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh went to a fancy dress party last week costumed as a butler and chambermaid. Their host, Ambassador Douglas, was rigged out as a farmer. His wife hid her gentle features behind a horse's mask to appear as The Old Grey Mare. Their daughter, honey-haired Sharman, came as A Portrait of a Lady; she carried around a huge picture frame, finally abandoned it in a corner...