Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During a routine inspection, a team captain, Karl Smucker, 20, a cook at McDonald's, was knocked down by a thief lurking behind a garbage container. The rest of the patrol grabbed the attacker, but Smucker had already been slammed to the floor hard enough to break his jaw in two places...
...Crimson fired a team total of 321 to hover in 6th place, 13 strokes behind UConn and a single shot behind Providence. UMass was second at the halfway mark with a 310 aggregate. The winning quintet qualifies for the NCAAs later this month at the Wake Forest University Course...
Everything fell, and Miss Sasaki lost consciousness. The ceiling dropped suddenly and the wooden floor above collapsed in splinters and the people up there came down and the roof above them gave way; but principally and first of all, the bookcases right behind her swooped forward and the contents threw her down, with her left leg horribly twisted and breaking underneath her. There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. --John Hersey, Hiroshima...
...together at once--the season, papers and exams, the scouts, being captain," Brown said, almost having to force the words out. "I was feeling a lot of pressure. Not so much pressure--I was just tired of it all. I wanted to get it over with and get it behind me. I wasn't really all that physically tired, but emotionally tired...
...Sisters," we are treated to a choice piece of cant as Nin tells of a father who "made a ceremony of burning D.H. Lawrence's books, which betrays how far behind the times this family was in the development of the sensual life." The worship of Lawrence is also felt in the language of these stories. It imitates without flattering. The result is not even very sexy. "She lived open and sensitized to his presence" and "all other women were cancelled by her voice" are not much of a substitute for the real thing. The frustration of the "Collector" becomes...