Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major factor in Kentucky's pre-eminence in breeding thoroughbreds is the quick-growing, perennial bluegrass. Under lying this valuable feed crop is a layer of rare old limestone, which supplies phosphorus and calcium for the building of sturdy bones, elastic muscles and strong tendons...
While he was board chairman of the Union Pacific, Harriman went to Washington as one of Franklin Roosevelt's "tame millionaires" to help out in NRA. His old friend Harry Hopkins-whom he had met at a Long Island croquet party in pre-New-Deal days-eventually pulled him into the White House vortex. Harriman's first big job for F.D.R. was to work out the provisions of Lend-Lease aid to Britain. His second assignment was to get aid to Russia, and in 1943 he was appointed Ambassador to Moscow. Harriman was never dazzled by the Communist...
...their six years in office in Eboli, the Demo-Christians had done nothing to meet their pledges of new housing and land to the peasants. At a big pre-election rally one night last week, Communist Leader Antonio Cassese, the local dentist, cried: "There will be no peace in Eboli until they give us the land, until they give us houses, until they give us schools for our children! . . ." Townspeople nodded agreement. The Ebolitani say: "Christ may have stopped at Eboli, but the money stopped at Salerno...
Puccini: Tosco (Maria Caniglia, Beniamino Gigli, Armando Borgioli; chorus and orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Rome, conducted by Oliviero de Fabritis; Victor Treasury series, 4 sides LP). Puccini's fieriest, reissued in the fine, robust performance that was a pre-LP highlight. Recording: good...
Scaramouche (M-G-M), based on Rafael Sabatini's costume-adventure yarn of pre-revolutionary France, combines spirited swordplay with a somewhat sluggish screenplay. Scaramouche (Stewart Granger) is an aristocrat who is bent on avenging the murder of his friend by malevolent Monarchist Mel Ferrer. Not only does Granger prove more than worthy of Master Swordsman Ferrer's steel; he also proves to be quite a gay blade by hiding out from the authorities with a troupe of traveling players. By the fadeout, Granger has found that Ferrer is really his halfbrother, and, in a happier twist...