Word: behind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stuck. He had produced one thinly disguised story about his roommate's sex life, two reminiscences of childhood in Dobbs Ferry, and the coffee cups poem. He hated the idea of writing a "potboiler," but he was three thousand words behind. Three times that weeks he had started another reminiscence of his Dobbs Ferry childhood, only to give up in disgust...
...getting the Security Council sessions onto the networks. Says he: "I only confirmed a general attitude." Says a network vice president in Chicago: "A lot of network brass would say, 'Oh, yes, we take the critics' opinion seriously,' but they get nothing but a chuckle behind closed doors...
Died. G. (for Gustaf) Aaron Young-quist, 73, Swedish-born member of the U.S. Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure, leader of the investigation that put Al Capone behind bars; in Minneapolis...
EDGAR KAISER'S decisive move to settle with the Steelworkers reflects a lifetime career of troubleshooting. Father Henry J. worked out the broad ideas that built the Kaiser empire, stubbornly pushed them, in the face of ridicule and skepticism. Behind him, putting the ideas to work, came Edgar and a group of University of California college friends, including Eugene E. Trefethen Jr., new vice chairman of several Kaiser companies, and D. A. ("Dusty") Rhoades, new president of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. When Henry J. won a contract to build the main spillway dam at Bonneville...
Other CCA candidates finished well behind Watson's tenth place showing. Richard E. McLaughlin had around 2,000 votes, some 600 below Watson's final total. Still more CCA candidates trailed McLaughlin...