Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Must Have Cooperation." This was the exigency; what was to be done about it? The general sniffled and pre-occupiedly pinched his nose. "I do not believe," he said, "that the United States can pick up the world on its economic, financial and material shoulders and carry it. We must have cooperation . . ." This was the nub of the discussion. Would Europe cooperate...
...eighth anniversary of Stalingrad, Pravda triumphantly reprinted an old pre-Pearl Harbor Truman quote: "If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible." What Pravda carefully omitted was the final phrase: ". . . although I don't want to see Hitler victorious in any circumstances...
...bulk buying had never been invented, if the old-fashioned pre-Socialist price system were working, there would soon be a way of determining whether Argentina's price was exorbitant. Some private British meat importers would pay the high price in the hope that they could sell at a profit. If they were wrong, Argentina's price would come down...
...pre-carnival samba competition broke all records with 700 new entries. At week's end, two were declared 1951 co-winners. One was a coldhearted ditty called For Your Information ("For your information, there's someone else in your place"). The second, fretting over the city's perennial water shortage, was called I Hope It Rains Three Days in a Row. No sooner were the winners announced than it rained three days in a row. Now all that Rio asked was clear skies-and perhaps a word from the velhinho that he would legalize gambling...
...Brown told a banquet of ballplayers in San Francisco last week, "can give a guy a bad time. Their oral examinations break many a medical student who can't take it." Dr. Brown, an intern at Southern Pacific General Hospital, credited his own success in medical school to pre-med training as a third baseman for the New York Yankees. "Big-league baseball conditioned me to hold up," said the "Golden Boy" who was paid a $50,000 bonus to sign with the Yanks in 1946. "I could look those profs in the eye and say: 'Brother...