Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice President Richard Nixon banned umbrellas, because he felt that they would have recalled the pre-World War II appeasement policies of Great Britain's umbrella-carrying Prime Minister Sir Neville Chamberlain...
Italian and Greek relatives of U.S. residents are filling up the quotas from those countries -because Congress permitted the relatives of constituents to pre-empt the refugee quotas. But no action has yet been taken on the amendments proposed by President Eisenhower to liberalize...
...sprightliest of these stories center around Grandfather Myron Adams, a patriarchally bearded forebear who was born in the late 18th century, helped build the Grand Erie Canal, and on occasion proved altogether willing to relate the bizarre hazards and furies of pre-Civil War life in the very language of those wonderful, distant days. His racy and ebullient yarns of plugging canal leaks, spiriting runaway slaves along the underground railway, and keeping books for a traveling circus are crammed with theologasters, dawpluckers, makebates, hoodledashers and such archaic huncamunca. His grandson's version of baseball in the Abner Doubleday country...
Sailboats drifted through an almost windless race off the Connecticut shore. Hurricane III was passing lobster pots now and narrow, leaning oyster-bed stakes, so the skipper could get a reading on the current. It was not up to pre-race calculations. Off Point No. Point, southeast of Bridgeport, he reduced r.p.m. again. Behind him, half a dozen skippers thought twice as they held to course and speed...
...book which added "It" to the vocabulary of the '20s enthralled readers on two continents and enthroned Elinor Glyn as the sultriest literary siren of the pre-Kinsey age. Even more famous, of course, was Three Weeks, a swoonmaking elixir that Elinor uncorked in 1907. Three Weeks, written in six, eventually sold some 5,000,000 copies, and featured a wildly romantic Balkan queen who greeted her lover from a reclining position on a tiger skin with a red rose between her teeth. The book was boycotted in Boston, blasted from pulpits, and celebrated in an anonymous ditty...