Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candidates who had planned to carry their fight to the people next year over the nation's 3,165 radio & TV stations may be in for a shock. The Federal Communications Commission last week handed down a ruling that could set political campaigning back to the pre-radio...
...picked him as a first-string offensive guard on Look's All-America team. Against L.S.U., Nick played 55 minutes, took a terrific physical beating. But he could do little to prevent the Wildcats' 45-7 rout by the Southern team that was only a six-point pre-game favorite. Going home that night in the plane, Nick could not sleep as his teammates did. Through his bruised lips, he kept muttering: "I'm no good. I'm no good...
Butterfield also proposed that colleges abolish long pre-season practices, abolish long trips, limit practice time, play teams only in the colleges' own class and group, and insist that athletes on scholarships remain in the top half of their class...
With the directors out of the way we whipped together a topic list pretty quickly. Bernstein and company returned upon a pre-arranged signal from us and began frowning over the agenda...
...capture the sizable peace-at-any-price vote from Harry Truman. It is reminiscent of Teddy Roosevelt's famous speech in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize when he said that he was for peace, but "peace with righteousness." And it is a vast advance over Taft's pre-Pearl Harbor statement that war would be worse than a German victory over Britain...