Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have died. Investing the Security Council's power in the UN Assembly, where the veto cannot embalm action, allowed the United States to seek and receive the moral support for the Korean venture which only an international assembly can confer. These measures clearly mark the change in attitude from pre-war shilly-shally to today's resolve...
...report - a climax which he, personally, had suggested, without benefit of speechwriters : "There is something I would say to Stalin: You claim belief in Lenin's prophecy that one stage in the development of Communist society would be war between your world and ours. But Lenin was a pre-atomic man, who viewed society and history with pre-atomic eyes...
...restaurants were always popular meeting places. At the Bow St. restaurant professors and students lined up along his banquet table to drink the first pre-cooled beer in Cambridge. Following Prohibition. Cronin was the first local bartender to get a license to sell beer...
...Horace Ashenfelter, 29, Olympic steeplechase champion, who got the Sullivan Trophy as "the amateur athlete . . . who did the most to advance the cause of good sportsmanship during the year." A rank outsider in pre-race ratings, Ashenfelter pulled off the biggest upset of the Olympics when he beat Russia's Record-Holder Vladimir Kasantsev in Olympic-record time...
Above all, Buck feels Harvard should remain free of fettering controls. "Harvard, if it is to remain pre-eminent as a university, has a special responsibility to guard jealously its free market of ideas," he once said. "By doing so it can contribute both to a nation built on free institutions and to the advancement of learning...