Word: behind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adviser (officially his executive assistant in Albany) was General (ret.) Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, most recently Chief of Staff to NATO Chief General Lauris Norstad. For his growing platoon of speechwriters, Rockefeller signed on Hugh Morrow, onetime Washington correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, more recently the busy strop behind Senator Kenneth Keating's well-honed speeches (TIME, Oct. 5). And Advertising Executive Tom Losee took a leave of absence from his job as vice president of Manhattan's big McCann-Erickson agency to serve as Rocky's top TV-radio consultant...
Unless he slams on his brakes and risks a pile-up from behind, the fourth driver in the left-turn line-and sometimes the fifth and sixth-rolls through the red toward a waiting menace of another color: one of the two blue Chevrolets manned by the town's three-man police force, whose chief occupation is to collect a $15 "bond" from each driver not willing to stick around town to be tried and fined $15 for running a light...
...m.p.h., while many trucks that had flocked to M-1 returned to safer, slower routes. Then, one fog-shrouded morning on the motorway's northern reaches, a chain reaction took place. A disabled truck pulled to the side of the road, and a car stopped behind it; a police "breakdown van" pulled in to help. A truck piled into the breakdown van and the truck driver was killed. Another truck piled into the wreckage and its driver too was killed...
Egypt also needed Sudanese approval of the huge reservoir that will back up 100 miles into the Sudan behind the big dam, engulfing the land of thousands of Sudanese farmers. When talks broke down last year, the Sudan was demanding $100 million in compensation and Nasser was offering only $25 million. The two sides were also far apart on the proportion of river water each would get in a new pact...
...night, aided by invaluable information gained from the 800 confessions, Singapore's British-trained police force of 5,000 went into action. While British troops garrisoned in Singapore mounted roadblocks in "purely coincidental military exercises," police swooped down on known Triad hideouts, within 48 hours had 60 gangsters behind bars. Lee plans to impose curfews on all known gang-dominated quarters of the city, to make the streets of Singapore safe to walk again...