Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that in any organization as large as Quonset there are bound to be a number of misfits and malcontents, people who would be dissatisfied or critical of any authority. It is my firm conviction that at least 98% of both service and civilian personnel in the Quonset area are behind their commanding officer 100% and feel that he has been done a tremendous and undeserved injustice...
Race to Safety. As the flaming truck rolled, driverless, to a stop, scores of trucks and cars jammed up behind it. Coughing, half-blinded, their drivers and passengers got out and began running for safety; somehow, all got out alive. Within minutes the blocked section of tunnel, 18 ft. below the Hudson River's bed, was a roaring furnace...
...Vienna rooming house, four years ago, an obscure German citizen named Wilhelm Kaiser died, unmourned by anyone except his landlady. That kindly soul, Frau Amalie Feix, had nursed Kaiser during his illness, had paid hospital and funeral bills. The only valuables he had left behind were three rings. These, Frau Feix thought, rightly belonged to her. She hoped to sell them to make up for her expenses. Frau Feix, however, ran smack up against the Big Four...
...Crimson was not the runner-up, as luck would have it, was the big one--the New England Championships May 7 and 8 which also served as eliminations for the National Championships. In this regatta the Harvard team of Putnam and Scullay dropped to third place, two points behind Brown which nosed out Harvard for the honor of following Yale. Only two boats from New England can race in the nationals...
Last weekend, however, Harvard was back in its accustomed runner-up spot as Putnam and Scullay skippered the Crimson into second place behind the Elis in the Ivy Championships at Brown's Edgewood Yacht Club...