Word: behind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Behind this banter lay a keen intelligence. The literary value of her letters is high, not only for what she said about her own works but for her perceptive comments on others. She admired Graham Greene, with reservations: "What he does, I think, is try to make religion respectable to the modern unbeliever by making it seedy." Her comment on the Beat Generation writers was pithy and devastating...
...danger is salt. Found in even the best irrigation water, salt is usually left behind as crops soak up moisture through their roots, and the residue filters into the underground water table. But in the San Joaquin Valley, shallow layers of impermeable clay act as a natural obstacle, and brackish water has been backing up, already rising to within 5 ft. of the surface over some 400,000 acres. Adding to this mineral buildup is more salt left by evaporation. Crop losses have reached an estimated $32 million a year. If the accumulation is left unchecked, the valley could turn...
After falling behind Cornell by as much as 19 points in the first half of Saturday night's basketball game at the IAB, the Crimson battled back to within two points, 63-65, with seven minutes remaining in the contest before Mike Davis, the Redmen's leading scorer and rebounder, scored Cornell's next six points to stave off the Crimson's rally...
Harvard shot only 37 per cent from the floor in the opening stanza and quickly fell behind the hot-shooting Cornell team, 16-4, after only six minutes. Pete Call, who only averaged 9.3 points per game all season for the Redmen, picked up eight points in the opening Cornell splurge...
Carol Greenfield, on her way to a hat trick, started things off only 2:27 into the game when she stuffed the puck in from behind the net to give Cortland State a 1-0 lead...