Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slumping into the rear seat, he was still wiping his eyes when he heard an ominous click: up front, behind his bulletproof plastic shield, the driver had flicked a switch that locked both rear doors electrically to prevent passengers from taking off before paying the fare. "Where to, fella?" asked a voice from a loudspeaker overhead. John told him. The trip to the office was uneventful, until John put his $10 bill in a revolving tray in the partition and got back change for $5. When he pounded on the plastic and protested, the amplified voice informed him that...
...Saigon. In that charge about 50 sappers managed to sneak through ten defensive rings of wire, then sprinted down a flight line and destroyed nine helicopters with satchel charges. Only a few of the attackers carried rifles; the survivors later explained that they had left their valuable weapons behind before going into the assault-in the knowledge that they would not survive the mission...
...daily Ha'aretz, "have the right to expect that the helm be given to a younger person, whose power of action will not be restricted by age or health." That widely held feeling would not ultimately affect the choice. With the disciplined ranks of the labor party behind the leadership's choice, the decision, as Mrs. Meir once put it, "will not be made in the streets...
...Gurion's successor in the premiership of Israel. Chosen in 1963 for what many believed to be a transitional tenure, Eshkol presided over the defeat of Israel's enemies and its coming of age as an industrial state. When he died last week at 73, he left behind a government more unified than at any time in Israel's 21-year history, and one that rules over a territory three times as large as he inherited...
Because ex-King Saud's doctors had recommended that regular quaffing of camel milk might prolong his life, a Thracian camel was tied up behind the plush Kavouri Hotel near Athens...