Word: pre-war
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When 289 of us entered Radcliffe in 1942, the war had been on for nine months. Half of our class, including myself, were commuters. For those of us who lived in the dorms, the pleasant pre-war amenities soon became memories. By 1943, most of our Harvard classmates were in uniform. The WAVES moved into Briggs Hall and then later into Whitman. Radcliffe students were crowded into the rest of the dorms and outside houses. Progress across the Radcliffe and Harvard Yards meant dodging lines of marching women...
...Bicycles not rationed," an ad for the bicycleexchange read. "Plenty on hand. pre-war parts andaccessories. "Douglas Shoes did not producefootwear for soldires, but at the bottom of theirads placed the line "Invest in victory-buy bonds...
Hopes of independence were sidetracked by Italy's defeat in World War II. Under British military rule, part of Somalia's territory was turned over to Ethiopia to atone for pre-war European aggression. In 1950, the United Nations allowed Italy to return as a caretaker until Somalia was deemed self- sufficient...
...William Barr's actions involving Iraqgate--including his denial of a Congressional request for a special prosecutor--are only the latest evidence for that. So is the Central Intelligence Agency, having admitting to lying to Congress and a federal court about the use of taxpayer money in Iraq's pre-war military build...
...Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM). This crisis, which in the past two weeks has seen the British pound and Italian lira suspended from the ERM, the Spanish peseta significantly devalued, and the French franc under serious attack, has brought out of the closet all of the chauvinist habits of the pre-war years...