Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baker and Shevardnadze flashed the thumbs-up sign as they broke away from their lodge and strolled in the woods in bright sunshine with the majestic Grand Teton mountains looming in the distance. They left behind U.S. and Soviet experts to put the finishing touches on the documents...
...second set, however, Mueller quickly fell behind, 3-1, and seemed unable to muster the drive to fight back. His play became dispirited and mechanical, and he actually took to lying down between points, earning quizzical glances from Zimmerman...
...first set was a masterful display of power and finesse on the part of both players. Sheer brute strength was not enough to gain the upper hand in this contest; cunning was also required, as evidenced by a point in the ninth game when Zimmerman, pinned deep behind the baseline, chased down three overhead smashes, only to have Mueller drop it softly just over the net to win the point...
...Behind Yeltsin's down-home humor was a stark message about the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R., he warned, had barely a year, or less,to put its house in order. "We are on the edge of an abyss," he told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, "and if we go over the edge, it will lead to a cataclysm, not only for the Soviet Union but for the whole world...
...American bombing of Libya were rumored to have chosen Atlantic City as their target.) Along the Boardwalk stands a rank of casinos nudged so close against the water that they seem to teeter at its edge, their windows shut to the ocean air, their backs turned to the city. Behind them cowers the neighborhood known as the Inlet, where boxy row houses devolve into strange confections of brick, plywood and cardboard, and people doze on sleeping bags in doorless rooms with broken windows...