Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes later, Paul Orgeron and Dusty walked together across the big, asphalt-topped playground behind the school, where 50 second-grade children, under the watchful eyes of a teacher, were playing "spat-'em." Orgeron carried a newspaper-wrapped bundle and a suitcase. Dusty carried another suitcase. "Teacher!" called Orgeron. He walked up to Second-Grade Teacher Patricia Johnson and said: "Call all your children up here...
...knots. Crossfield's, voice tightened and his breathing came labored on the air as he maneuvered through a 3-g turn. Then he flew through a big triangle, settled into a long glide toward his landing field at Rogers Dry Lake on Edwards Air Force Base. Hovering close behind him, Chase Pilot Bob White called...
...lands behind the Iron Curtain, membership in the Communist Party is meant to be a signal honor, a reward for extraordinary services on a tractor, special zeal on a lathe, or talent and diligence at street-corner rallies. But in Warsaw last week, the rulers of Communist Poland were grimly facing up to the fact that to all but a handful of their subjects party membership had come to be nothing but a chore. On a recent journey through the Polish countryside, a Western traveler found that in village after village party headquarters had vanished, closed up for lack...
...when the opposition Statehood Party, which is the island branch of the mainland's Republican Party, would not buy his condition that the vote settle the question "once and for all." Last week, after what one associate called "quite an emotional wrench," Muñoz threw his support behind a new idea: a proposal to Congress that when per-capita income in Puerto Rico equals that of the poorest state (Mississippi's $1,053 v. Puerto Rico's $480), Congress will consider Puerto Rico's tax structure and give the islanders a chance to vote...
...ordinary accident on an ordinary road last winter, Britain's fastest, most expert drivers have pretty much throttled down out on the highway, with one exception: Countess Attlee, 63, wife of and longtime driver for former Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Last week Lady Attlee, whose cool daring behind the wheel gave newsmen a run for their copy during election campaigns, had a bit of bad luck, cracked a collarbone in a collision at a North London crossroads known as "Danger Junction." It was her fifth crash in four years...