Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proctors have a system worked out pretty well. They have shifty eyeballs and suspicious natures. They have red lines on the blue books so you cannot pre-write an exam. They have attendance slips and, it is rumored, handwriting experts. They have alternate seats and alternate rows. They even have mild mannered young men who considerately watch you when you go to the lavatory...
...paid out on Monday, not a dog soljer no more," exults a barrack-room ballad in From Here to Eternity. But a few days later, his mustering-out pay gone, his new-found freedom turned sour, the pre-Pearl Harbor infantryman in James Jones's novel surrenders to The Re-Enlistment Blues and signs...
...Rube Marquard and Jeff Tesreau and Ed Cicotte used the same ball inning after inning. Batters pounded it until it was brown and hard to see, pitchers doctored its horsehide; everything was stacked against the hitter (everything, that is, except for the occasional inspirations of such oldtimers as the pre-World War I Phillies' Otto Knabe and Mike Doolan, who once broke up a game with the Giants by swabbing the ball with capsicum salve, an irritant that sent Spitballer Jeff Tesreau to the showers with painfully swollen lips after only three innings...
This kind of narrow pre-judgment of Russia with which the U.S. faces the world can do this country little good. It is perhaps more dangerous than naivete, because it characterizes America as stubborn, dogmatic, and incredulous. A portrait painted in such colors clashes harshly with the glib flatteries and broad grins of Moscow's Abbott and Costello, and also with just such Russian ploys as the armaments reduction. America becomes the conservative and unimaginative, Russia appears the innovator, the offerer, the fair-haired caretaker of the peace dove...
Polish Pratfall. During pre-race physical exams in Warsaw, Russia's Yevgeny Klevtsov grabbed a machine designed to test his grip, squeezed the needle right off the dial and immediately began bawling for a meter that could show just how strong he really was. The grind had hardly begun when a member of the Polish emigre team tried to bump Italian Ace Dino Bruni into the gutter. Bruni kept his balance, but one of his volatile teammates unfastened his bicycle pump and bent it over the Pole's head. Out of Lodz, hell-bent for Stalingrod...