Word: behind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just surviving reading period is hard enough, so at the time you may have been too busy to question this long-time Harvard tradition. But now, with reading period safely behind us, it's time to look back and reflect on those two weeks of stress and agony that Harvard inflicts upon its students twice every year...
Several Harvard teams--including the 1985-86 version which went to the finals of the NCAA Tournament--cracked under 'Pot pressure. But this unit, behind freshman goalie Chuckie Hughes (38 saves), dug in and hung...
With 4:45 left in the game, the puck got behind Hughes and lingered just shy of the goal-line. In past years, the puck would have had just enough energy to sneak across the red strip. This year it stayed out long enough for defenseman Nick Carone to sweep it away...
...choice -- will approach Nicaragua with something less drastic in mind than toppling its government. In large part, that will happen because the contras are in suspended animation, not demobilized but with little hope of renewed military aid from the U.S. Instead, the U.S. will put its weight behind the 18-month-old Arias peace plan, as well as explore the possibility of direct talks with the Sandinistas...
...driving force behind domestic arms smuggling is the discrepancy among state laws. Northern states such as New York and Massachusetts have waiting periods of several weeks on gun purchases. That gives authorities time to check buyers for a criminal record and makes it harder for miscreants to get weapons. Not so in Texas or many parts of the South, such as Florida, South Carolina and Virginia, where customers need only show a driver's license or other form of identification that certifies them as state residents...