Word: behind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season was all too short. The first crucial presidential primary-New Hampshire's on March 8-was barely 20 weeks away. The gavel would call the Democratic convention to order in Los Angeles in less than nine months, with the Republican convention in Chicago only two weeks behind. And soon after the hunter's moon of 1960 had waned to a sliver, the U.S. would elect a new President...
...agents, Lawyers Leonard Dieden and John Purchio, scouted twelve Western states last summer, reported temptingly that the West was still wild and wide open for any candidate who moved fast. At the Sun Valley Western Governors' conference .TIME, Oct. 12) Brown tried unsuccessfully to form a Western coalition behind him (and ran into a buzz-saw rival, Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols). Brown frets over the rest of the nation's indifference to Western Governors. "Nobody outside of California has ever heard of Pat Brown," he told Columnist Joseph Alsop. "And if nobody's ever heard...
...race was a discouraging study in might-have-beens for the Crimson harriers, whose depth potential showed through even in defeat. Mark Mullin placed fourth just behind Nick Jennison of Dartmouth, with the next Harvard runners, Perry, Hildreth, Baldwin, Slansky, and Benjamin finishing in seventh to eleventh positions. Hallagan and Tompkins of Dartmouth provided the Green with its margin of victory by running fifth and sixth...
...Bagnoli's only mistake of the game, and it left the Crimson behind by a goal early in the game. Bagnoli and the Crimson backs made the difference between an important win and a bitter defeat for the varsity's defending League champions...
...much class discussion as possible in my teaching," Professor Edel says. "The act of reading is such a personal thing. I want students to see that it is an individual experience, and not look at a book as if it were behind a museum glass. You should read things out of a book, not into a book--this is what James wants you to do in Turn of the Screw. That's why Turn of the Screw will never be successful on television; James is ambiguous, and you can't be ambiguous on television...