Word: behind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, that is not likely to happen very often. Most people instinctively watch Ayckbourn. Something is going on behind that face of vanilla pudding, but they are not quite sure what. If they had seen any of his 22 plays, however, they would know: Ayckbourn is watching them, his eyes alert for what he calls those "quick social embarrassments" that comprise the human comedy...
...West provided a new outlet for Roosevelt's prodigious energies, as well as solace for the deaths of his mother and first wife on the same day. "Black care," wrote Roosevelt, "rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough." He rode hard, surpassing the doughty ranch hands whose ridicule turned to reverence. No body snickered when Teddy read Matthew Arnold on the trail of an outlaw gang...
...founding fathers knew what a President should look like, they kept it to themselves. A President, says the Constitution, need only be a native-born resident and old enough (35) to be dry behind the ears. The law is mute on the shape and size of those ears and other elements of physiognomy, stature and hirsuteness that go into the chimerical mix of looks...
...Crimson finished fourth at San Diego last year behind Washington, Penn and California. The defending champion Huskies faltered badly in the six-boat heats, coming in fourth and failing to qualify for the final...
Harvard's J.V. boat also won its event, thrashing Northeastern, Orange Coast College, California, Washington and Navy. The third Crimson boat placed third in its race, behind Orange Coast and Humbolt State...