Word: behind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Farmer Malard walked his acres last week and understood how others might not sense the stress. Behind him the low hills along the Missouri were beige, fringed with the green of buckbush and cottonwoods, durable species. "This time of year it should all be beautiful green," he said with a sweep of his muscled arm. The land is muted, it is leached, some of the soul sucked out and blown away. A farmer sees and knows about those things...
...head of the presidential guard to an insignificant desk job. Avril, 50, a veteran schemer with close ties to the old Duvalier regime, is thought to have engineered last week's coup. Promoted to brigadier general after the takeover, Avril is widely believed to be the guiding force behind the military regime...
Listen now to what many Japanese are saying. After much hesitancy and throat clearing, speaker after speaker expresses a desire for a peaceful world that builds prosperity. What raises that commonplace above banality is the obvious sincerity behind it; repeated often enough, it could almost serve as an embryonic creed for modern Japan. Takeshita talks of creating an international furusato (hometown). Speaking in Chicago after last week's summit, he pledged Japan's cooperation in "helping to resolve and prevent conflicts" between nations and vowed that Japan would play an international role commensurate with its financial strength...
...games, the bright-eyed star of the Detroit Pistons still had several working parts, but one ankle was overdue at the shop. Offensively anyway, he tottered admirably through the first half, when Detroit led by five points. But against a turned-up blast of James Worthy, the Pistons fell behind by 15 in the last quarter. They had to make their final run without Thomas, and nearly pulled it off. "At the end of the game," said the Lakers coach Pat Riley, "you were watching a great basketball team hold on. We were just holding...
...wearing a badge, who carried Tawana Brawley into the dark woods and held her for four days and raped her and chopped her hair and wrote KKK and NIGGER on her body and smeared dog feces on her and left her in a plastic garbage bag just behind the apartment where her family had lived until two weeks earlier...