Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...villa regularly swarms with visiting girls and women; when Aisha entertains, its marble walls ring with female giggles and pop tunes (some Aisha favorites: Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong) like a U.S. girls' dormitory. Aisha has abandoned the slacks and blue jeans which once raised orthodox eyebrows in pre-independence Morocco, but still favors slim-cut black skirts with sport blouses or wool cardigans. She uses pink lipstick, paints her fingernails and toenails to match, wears her thick hair usually in a chignon. Her voice is full, throaty and resonant. She speaks fluent French, is less sure of her English...
When the team scores were, at length, compiled, Cornell emerged a clear winner with 45 points to the Crimson's 61. Navy, the pre-meet dark horse squeezed into second place with a score...
Historically, pre-Sputnikly speaking, hopefuls for the nomination to the presidency have been drawn from three principal sources: the legal profession, sundry political assortments, heroic military personages. Now as we enter into the active Sputnik era, with its many scientific ramifications, is it not wisely incumbent that we seek future presidential nominees from the ranks of the scientific professions...
...Republican who had nonetheless voted for Franklin Roosevelt in 1936, Rogers went in 1952 to G.O.P. Behind-the-Scenes-Expert Herb Brownell, whom he knew only casually, and volunteered to work for Dwight Eisenhower in the pre-convention campaign. While in Chicago Rogers also caught the eye of Richard Nixon, went along with the vice-presidential candidate on a Western swing, was with him when the news broke that Nixon was the beneficiary of a trust fund put up for him by California admirers. Preparing for his "Checkers" television explanation to the nation, Nixon used Rogers as a sounding board...
With Stahura out, Bill Crowley will receive the starting assignment at right halfback. He showed much promise in pre-season practice, but until this last week's drills, gave little indication of fulfilling it. Tomorrow will be his first starting opportunity. Chauncey Walker will start at right guard replacing Anderson, also injured in the rough Dartmouth contest...