Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acheson's proposition: 1) citywide free elections for a provisional Berlin government; 2) re-establishment of the four-power Kommandatura with each nation's veto power restricted to security matters only. When Acheson suggested that the ministers talk about it behind closed doors, Vishinsky agreed...
Time also changed the Paseo. Flashy new hotels rose behind the Paseo's stately trees. Wealthy families moved west to Chapultepec Heights. Automobile agencies hung their neon signs in the old mansion windows. Finally, city engineers decided that the 19th Century Paseo should become a modern six-lane concrete ribbon...
...theory behind the exchange: there may be some factor in normal blood that combats leukemia; it might work on the bone marrow, source of the abnormal, immature cells, or it might work on the cells themselves. The doctors hoped to increase this suspected factor X in the convict's bloodstream by giving it extra work to do in fighting the child's leukemia. It was the first such experiment on human beings, although transfusions of normal blood are standard practice for leukemia victims as a life-prolonging measure. One difficulty had been getting a donor willing to exchange...
Last week, in his San Mateo, Calif. home, Amadeo Peter Giannini died of a heart attack. Behind him he left the biggest banking empire in the world ($6 billion in assets and 522 branches), but a personal fortune estimated as low as $300,000. A.P. had never been interested in merely making money...
...Arnold Boult, Tracy misses much of the substance and savor of the role. His rages, his gaiety, his coldblooded urbanities lack the neurotic, compulsive tensions which made Boult what he was. Behind his big executive desk, Tracy is almost completely convincing but elsewhere-as in a sequence of sophisticated badinage in Miss MacGrath's sitting room-he is beyond his depth. As his sensitive but spineless wife, Miss Kerr reels in much of the slack of Tracy's performance with ease and authority. Except for some tasteless exaggeration of dress and manner in her final drunken scenes...