Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formally and proudly introduced their stars: shock-haired Joseph Bozsik, 28, the squad's right halfback, who is a member of the Hungarian Parliament, and Captain Ferenc Puskas. 26, the inside right, who announced briefly and grimly: "We will win." English-language handouts explained that in Hungary "the pre-1945 sporting era of private enterprise and uncertainty of the morrow has given way to an era of planned initiative ensured by the people's democratic state...
...this mass of personal reminiscence became the object of spirited bidding. The ultimate buyers, Simon & Schuster, announced the event in tones which indicated they had accomplished a major coup. The diary is to be a massive affair, even after editing, but the publishers have run off two pre-publication printings (25,000) of Volume I, The First Thousand Days, and are at least outwardly confident that the work will be received with increasing fervor as succeeding volumes follow it to the bookstores...
...Pre-Christmas Rush. In Sunset Beach, Calif., Clothing Manufacturer Fred Gerletti told police that thieves had broken into his factory, stolen 60 new Santa Claus suits worth...
...married a Smith girl in 1940, and now he and his wife have two boys, 10 and 7, and a girl, 5. In the summer he takes them to Duxbury, where he is tennis pre at the yacht. club. "We have 125 kids there, and miles of backboards. It's a regular tennis factory. Last year we beat Scituate by half a point, 601/2 to 60. They are our big rivals. We hate them most...
...plebiscite, a plebiscite the Italians would almost certainly win. Any lasting solution, of course, must be worked out at a meeting of the countries concerned. The United States and Britain, it becomes more clear, will have to establish heir own policy before full-scale bargaining can begin. Such pre-conference agreements must meet certain basic requirements: Triestc must be made a free port, the Zones must not be so completely separated that the trade both sectors require is impossible. And these negotiations must save the prestige of both countries and abate the rampant nationalism which the United States has promoted...