Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ended months of dithering and sent arms to an ally in Morocco, agreed to modernize nuclear weapons in Europe and stood behind the higher interest rates invoked by the Federal Reserve...
After the dead and wounded were taken away in ambulances, police officers cordoned off the area. Left behind was the van, which still had a can of Mountain Dew on its dashboard and a red ribbon swinging from its rearview mirror. As the officers dispersed the onlookers, the faces of many of the people were streaked with tears and blood and some seemed to be in an ugly mood. Then the police and the citizens of Greensboro prepared for a weekend of tension and soul searching...
...educators. Said Phyllis Franck of the American Federation of Teachers: "She is a rather curious choice, but we are going to keep an open mind." Officials of the rival National Education Association said they were taking a "wait-and-see attitude" toward Hufstedler. The N.E.A. was the prime mover behind the new Cabinet post, first persuading Carter in 1976 that splitting education from HEW would make federal school programs more efficient and then helping him lobby the bill through Congress in September...
Within sight of two tanks hidden discreetly behind the trees, thousands of mourners flocked in front of the capitol in Seoul last week, in a mass wake for South Korea's slain President Park Chung Hee. Day after day, uniformed schoolchildren, silk-clad housewives and bearded village elders disembarked from rickety country buses and surged through a choking cloud of incense past the dozen black-draped altars. There, Buddhist priests murmured their sutras while mourners prostrated themselves in grief. With a shrug, a government worker whispered the prevailing mood of sorrowful but stoical resignation: "Gone is gone...
...however, was a growing mood of uncertainty. Koreans speculated endlessly about what, and who, would replace Park. With the major political figures out of public view, in deference to the nine-day mourning period, nobody could measure the extent of the power struggle that might already be under way behind the scenes. Nor could anyone tell for sure who was actually in charge of the country. Much of the talk centered on the enigmatic figure of General Chung Seung Hwa, 53, the Army Chief of Staff and Martial Law Commander. Last week Chung's deputy, Lieut. General...