Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...According to my understanding, Mr. Rockefeller's objection was to the inclusion of an easily recognizable portrait of himself in the group to the left, which Rivera described as "socialite degenerates." I refer, of course, to the man with the glasses peering from behind the four card players...
...corridors, leveling their cameras at the White House and the Washington Monument. In this fine spring atmosphere members of the House approved what was probably a peacetime record for one week's check-signing ($24 billion), then headed for home and a ten-day vacation. The Senate, far behind in its work, labored...
...Behind the legend of the revolutionist was the real story of Frankie Waldron, the middle-class boy who never quite made good...
Waldron Sr. was a small, grey, wiry man who kept his own counsel, spent most of his time at home hidden behind his newspaper. He was a rebel against steady work, a smalltime promoter of various large-sounding enterprises which never quite seemed to pan out. Father was a rebel in other respects. He disliked such contraptions as the automobile. He suspected such institutions as the telephone company; when he decided the company was cheating him on toll calls he had the telephone taken out, never would have it put back...
...outcome of the other two races is less certain, although again Harvard holds the big advantage of ample practice behind it. Entered in the jayvee race is the crew stroked by Jerry Wells, a boat which hasn't been far behind the Jack Smith-stroked varsity in practice sprints this spring...