Word: behind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call is made, and thus there would be no record of their origin. It is unclear what records, if any, the Union Leader has to support its story. There was no telephone at the Chappaquiddick cottage itself; the phone mentioned by the Union Leader was in a locked studio behind the cottage, and the owners reported no indication that anyone had broken in to use the phone. If Kennedy had later made the twelve calls that the paper said he placed from the pay phone at the Shiretown Inn, where he was staying in Edgartown, it is highly unlikely that...
Frokowski was a free-spending Polish refugee who loved fast cars and women, and was once described as a sort of Hemingway hero. A man who could inspire deep friendship and violent enmity, he had left two former wives behind in Poland. Frokowski was not believed to be a confidant of Polanski's, as he claimed, but rather a hanger-on with sinister connections to which even the tolerant Polanski objected. Both he and Gibby were said to be familiar with at least marijuana, possibly stronger drugs. "You could walk in their house, take a deep breath...
...Congress could have significant results. One would strengthen the hand of prosecutors and grand juries in mounting investigations and make involvement in organized crime generally?regardless of the specific violation?a federal offense. The second measure would invoke civil procedures, such as antitrust action, to attack organized crime behind its screen of bogus legitimacy...
...also fought Sicilians from another area, going so far as to take Neapolitans as allies. A particularly bloody period in 1930-31 called the Castellammarese War (the town of Castellammare del Golfo was home to one of the factions) killed about 60 gangsters. Thus the factions agreed to unite behind the Mob's modern founding father, Salvatore Maranzano...
...distinctly preferable to the economic stagnation and moral despair that have now settled on Czechoslovakia. That conclusion is unacceptable to the Soviets. It is all too obvious, however, to the 40,000 Czechoslovaks who have already chosen exile from their homeland -and, more painfully so, to those who stayed behind...