Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four hours behind closed doors in the committee's gloomy Capitol committee room, Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson answered some questions, left more unanswered. Western Europe would get no immediate boost in its military strength: the first year's supplies would simply reinforce established divisions, chiefly with light equipment. But what would the future cost be? Nobody knew. Which nations would get how much? That was up to the discretion of the President and not the countries involved. Significantly, it would be the Secretary of State and not the Secretary of Defense...
...Russians were clearly eager to end the Berlin blockade. The fact that the bold, persistent Berlin airlift-and Berliners' dogged courage-had brought them to this point was a notable cold war victory for the West. But there was far more than that behind the Moscow statement...
...dawn, Acting President Li Tsung-jen, together with Premier Ho Ying-chin and Nanking's garrison commander, sped to the city airport. Soldiers put them aboard waiting planes, hastily jumped in after them and slammed the doors. Behind them, Nanking lay waiting for the conquerors...
...Year Course? How soon, if at all, might Japan's re-education come to a focus? "To leave something sound behind," said one American officer, "will take us another ten years-if the U.S. taxpayer can stand it," Other Americans thought two or three years might be enough for a start. Whatever the period, most education officers agreed that with Communism on the march in Asia, the U.S. has little choice but to continue its schoolmaster's task in Japan...
...next year Rex Tugwell was appointed Governor and, teamed with Muñoz, began what became known as Puerto Rico's Little New Deal. Some of the laws behind it were already on the statute books; Tugwell and Muñoz breathed life into them. Among the important agencies that went into operation were the industrial-development and farm-development corporations, and the Puerto Rico Planning, Urbanizing and Zoning Board. The Land Authority tackled the job of enforcing a 40-year-old law limiting holdings of real estate by corporations to 500 acres...