Word: behind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lacocca, D.ENG., executive vice president, Ford Motor Co. With millions of mustangs behind you and millions of mavericks before you, you are providing America with its wheels...
...defiant. "The Gibraltarians are making do," TIME Correspondent John Blashill reported from the Rock. "They are pitching in, answering the call, much as their British cousins did during the Blitz. The Navy dockyards are functioning. Essential services are working. Shop owners have put their wives and teen-age children behind the counters. The men of two British battalions are filling in where needed: hauling cement, unloading ships, baking bread, even serving at times as busboys and waiters in the tourist hotels...
...Parliament, Socialists, Communists, Proletarian Socialists, Republicans and Liberals are for the first time united behind the divorce bill. Test votes show them narrowly victorious over Christian Democrats and smaller right-wing opponents. Though 101 Christian...
...Witcover (Putnam's; $6.95). As chief political writer for the Newhouse newspapers, Witcover, 41, saw more of the campaign than Halberstam, and what he failed to see he diligently traced through those who did. Written chronologically (from January 1968 through the June funeral), 85 Days abounds in unreported behind-the-scenes incidents and anecdotes. The author notes, for example, that Kennedy seriously urged TV Newscaster Walter Cronkite to run for Senator in New York. He vividly re-creates a hotel-room scene in which Kennedy, wearing only his shorts, berates Adam Walinsky and Jeff Greenfield, two young speech-writing...
...seminal spillage of Darwin's The Origin of Species and kept alive by public demand. Naturalism at best tends to project the human animal as an unappetizing accumulation of nerve endings and appetites. But in Miss Susann's handling, appetites consume the characters they inhabit, leaving nothing behind but a bad taste...