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Word: behind (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard jumped out to a 14-7 lead behind Tri-Captain Hayes, who scored 16 points and pulled down six offensive rebounds on her way to a total of 11 caroms. But Brown kept the game close thanks to some terrible inside shooting by the Crimson and excellent play by the Bruins' Margaret Fuchs...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Women Cagers Scorch Brown, 71-60 | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...Fuchs] is a physically strong player," Delaney Smith said, "but I wasn't worried about her because if you play behind her, she can't do much with the ball once she gets it. She's not like Sarah [Duncan] or Beth [Chandler], who can square to the basket and become a threat...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Women Cagers Scorch Brown, 71-60 | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...silver in the super-G, but interest swung to their teammate Brigitte Oertli (two silvers) and to Canada's new hope, Karen Percy. Skiing with a broken left thumb, she took a bronze in the downhill, scraped out a fourth in the combined with her left pole flopping uselessly behind her as she ran the slalom, then took another bronze in the super...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Champagne Runs | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...firmly dismissed the moralistic posturing that has characterized much of the White House's response to the AIDS epidemic and outlined a realistic policy to control the spread of the disease. "We waste a lot of rhetoric and excessive time on a couple of little issues, while the forest behind us is burning," declared Watkins. "We believe some major changes in course are necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Finally, A Sensible AIDS Plan | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...chief diagnostic tools. Upstairs, in a room decorated with children's posters of properly placed tongues, Brooks sits in front of a mirror. He puts a button-size plastic ring on the tip of his tongue, draws it into his mouth, and presses it up against the ridge behind the front teeth. It is an exercise against the tongue-lolling tendency that Inman-Ebel says characterizes 70% of Southern speakers. She says many Southerners suffer not just from forward tongue carry but also from unwanted "nasal emissions" (or twang), "restricted mandibles" ("a big phrase for talking with your mouth closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chattanooga: How Not to Talk like a Southerner | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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