Word: behind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve hours after the occupation began, the cops left their riot clubs behind and headed for Dartmouth. With equal calm, one radical announced over a bullhorn: "We want no violence. Do not taunt the cops. The people inside will not resist...
...small Missouri town of Fulton to accept an honorary degree from little-known Westminster College. His acceptance speech made Fulton a historic site. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic," Churchill said, "an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." To combat the forces that lurked behind it, he proposed a "fraternal association" between the U.S. and Great Britain...
...young man in Berlin, Nabokov decided to translate an English masterpiece into Russian, the book he chose was Alice in Wonderland. Perhaps he knew, even then, that the best way for an artist to triumph over time was to vanish like the Cheshire cat, leaving only a smile behind...
...science seen not as antagonists but as allies in capturing and celebrating the delightful, eccentric and always individual surfaces of life. Yet his feeling at times encompasses an almost mystic vision of beatitude. "This is ecstasy," he once wrote about standing alone in green woods among rare butterflies. "Behind the ecstasy is something else which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern?to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to tender ghosts...
...jumped by 10% last year, more than the increase in any other item of family living expenses. Home-building costs went up at an annual rate of 12% during March, the latest month for which statistics have been compiled. At the same time, U.S. housing output has fallen seriously behind the nation's needs. Last year the U.S. built just under eight houses and apartments for every 1,000 people compared with 16 per 1,000 during 1950, the peak year. On a per capita basis, U.S. housing output has fallen from world leadership to a level below Western...