Word: beforehand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...addition, the former Government concentrator will begin the shoot of a NBC sports commercial which will appear across New England Anderson said he is not yet sure what the commercial will entail "Usually, you don't really know about the stuff you do beforehand you just show...
...spangly, fairy-tale part of the First Lady's role may reach its apotheosis in the State Dining Room. Yet even state dinners are, to Nancy Reagan, an agglomeration of hundreds of prosaic checklist items. She approves and tastes beforehand virtually every item on every menu. During the first term, she spent roughly 450 hours planning 30-odd state dinners. She presided at nearly as many other official dinners, as well as an additional 250 official White House functions, the picture-perfect but surely enervating flurry of luncheons, teas, receptions. Such occasions require a deep well of small talk...
...Beforehand, it was uncool to care: the world's quadrennial white elephant was lumbering toward Tinseltown, and so what? And besides, the Russians weren't coming; the Russians weren't coming. But by the time the great Rafer Johnson made it up the Coliseum's endless stairs, cynicism was lifting like those white balloons with the funny red and blue tails. The Games were going to be grand after all. For two glorious weeks, Americans sat transfixed in front of their TV sets, thrilling to heroes they had never heard of a month earlier. The images that flickered across...
...president have been the moderator? Why couldn't distinguished former elected officials, from all points of the political spectrum, have constituted the panel? At least then a tendency to digress from the true subject of the evening would have been understandable, even expected, and could have been expressly forbidden beforehand...
...benefit from these acts, and therefore he cautions against any retaliatory strike that is not aimed precisely at the culprits. "If you have good intelligence, there's a strong case for taking action," he contends. "But if you're that good, you probably knew about the plot beforehand and could have prevented...