Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nose. Carrying his 72-page countdown book, he ambled around the blockhouse. The countdown had begun at 12:06 p.m. and was going well. He looked up at the rocket. "Very dignified," he observed approvingly. Later, as is his custom, he patted it affectionately before taking his position behind the three sheets of thick tempered glass that protect blast-off watchers...
...with Pamela's family: "There were six of us, and we had to talk fast. My mother was half Irish, half Welsh, and she talked all the time-more than I do now." Pamela's Russian-born father (British Movie Pioneer Sir Isidore Ostrer) was not far behind in his rumpled English. The family stopped talking when Pamela's parents were divorced (she was eleven: "All of a sudden I was sort of grown up"), but her training paid off. Running away from school at twelve, Pamela talked herself into a London movie career, had made...
...drink more than they did in college (Scotch is preferred to bourbon or gin), but 137 drink less, and 27 sit stoutly on the wagon. Card playing is preferred to sex as a favorite indoor sport (181 to 47), with squash (29) and table tennis (12) not too far behind. Three hardy Princetonians say they still play football, and one ropes calves for fun, but 131 like golf...
...fantastic Congressman Harmon's business was obviously public business, and as such, it was the latest in a series of exposés on congressional nepotism, payroll high jinks and money-hungry Congressmen that have boiled out of Capitol Hill in the past two months. And the man behind the Harmon story was the newsman behind the entire series: Scripps-Howard's lean, bow-tied Vance Henry Trimble, 45, a shirtsleeve reporter who got his beats by dogged digging in a city where newsmen often settle for the mimeographed handout and the formal press conference...
...materials grew thinner as manufacturers hedged against possible strikes. The three major copper producers. Anaconda, Kennecott and Phelps Dodge, hiked copper 1½? per Ib. to 31½?, highest price in 21 months. And steelmakers set a rate of 89.5% of rated capacity, said shipments were still far behind orders...