Word: behind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couple of breathe-ins downtown; we wore health masks into the county supervisors' offices. There isn't much time left. We make more smog, inside our houses, you know, from all those jet cans: beer cans, shaving cream, hair spray. I often wonder if there's any Communist payoffs behind the smog...
...Enter Bel, France's largest cheese company, which may or may not have been behind the attack on Perrier to blunt its bid for Genvrain. Bel and Genvrain merge, and announce their combining as a fait accompli...
...schoolmaster who imagines he is loved and trusted by his boys is, in fact, mimicked and laughed at behind his back," recalled George Orwell in Such, Such Were the Joys. James Hilton took the opposite view. The schoolmaster who thought himself mocked was actually loved. Orwell's essay may have been what the public needed to know. But Hilton's 1934 novel was what it wished to read. Goodbye, Mr. Chips rapidly passed from sentimental classic bestseller to sentimental classic movie. In the title role, Robert Donat won an Academy Award, and Mr. Chips achieved legendary status...
...rain failed to slow down shifty Bill Spiro, who had a hand in five touchdowns. After the fourth score, the lefthander attempted to throw for the extra point behind his back, but the pass fell incomplete...
...Antiquated abortion laws and practices in the United States must share the responsibility for the high abortion death rate with the illegal abortionists. Abortion is the third biggest racket in the United States (behind gambling and prostitution). Although some competent doctors perform illegal abortions because they are convinced the laws are unfair, the majority of abortionists are incompetent money scroungers. However, under the present legal system, a woman is forced to turn to these people if she is to retain the right to make decisions about her life. The power in the present system lies in the hands...