Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Political Army. Diaz Lanz's charge is backed by a growing pile of evidence. Raul Castro, onetime traveler behind the Iron Curtain, now commander of Cuba's armed forces, boasts: "We are a political army. We fought to transform the economic and social structure of the nation." Assisting Raul are Reds or pinks in top army spots, including the army inspector general, the commander of Havana's La Cabana fortress, the commander of La Cabana's 7th Regiment, the army legal chief in Oriente, the military commander of Las Villas district...
...anybody else," said Humorist James Thurber once of E. B. (for Elwyn Brooks) White, the lucid essayist whose weekly wit led off The New Yorker for years before he deserted Manhattan to write on a farm in Maine. From Thurber it was high praise, and it spoke another truth: behind every writer stands a teacher of some kind. Behind E. B. White himself, it turns out, stands the exhortative ghost of a curious and delightful man, the late Professor William Strunk Jr., proprietor of English 8 at Cornell University when White passed through 40 years...
...book in 38 years. Now, thanks to White, the supply has been replenished (Macmillan; $2.50) with a fond testimonial by White: "From every page there peers out at me the puckish face of my professor, his short hair . . . combed down over his forehead, his eyes blinking incessantly behind steel-rimmed spectacles as though he had just emerged into strong light, his lips nibbling each other like nervous horses...
Soaring and kneeling at the same time, the saint lifts his hands high in wonder toward a storm-swept sky. Behind him. chalky ghosts and children dance, fly, and cry out before a mysterious curtain of green and yellow. That is all. The colors are lurid, the forms only half-shaped...
...rise, whole groups of stock have been left behind. Aircrafts were caught in an earnings downdraft caused by heavy investments in the new jets: during the first half Boeing skidded nine points to close June at 37½, Douglas dropped 10½ to 47½. Oils were burdened by heavy inventories and price cuts: Royal Dutch dipped 5⅜ to 42½; Standard (N.J.) slid to 51⅝; Gulf worried off 16 to 110. Among utilities, losses from two to five points hit Consolidated Edison, Southern California Edison, American Electric Power...