Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Browne gave several reasons behind the resistance of many Southern whites. He said that one of these, the fear of intermarriage, stems from the "club-like attitude" of the pre-Civil War South, "where ideas of race supremacy grew...
...After a pre-election display of forensic talent, the Cambridge City Council came out for the abolition of the Proportional Representation system of balloting, by a 5-3-1 vote...
...lost). To counter the Nacionalistas' largesse, the Liberals' Presidential Candidate José Yulo has used an estimated $2,500,000 of his personal sugar fortune. Throughout the countryside, well-armed election workers were busily canvassing voters for campaign funds, with their guns suggestively visible. Complaints of pre-election fraud, terrorism and violence poured in on the Commission of Elections, which plaintively asked all candidates to limit their armed bodyguards to a maximum of four each...
...years behind cloister walls, she was almost equally unfitted not to be a nun. Her bestselling first book. I Leap Over the Wall (TIME, Jan. 30, 1950), had a certain Rip van Winkle-ish appeal: it drew the portrait of a woman trained in the leisurely graces of pre-World War I society trying to cope with the rough-and-tumble era of World War II, after nearly three decades of being out of the world. In The Called and the Chosen, continuing her literary role as a kind of Thomas Merton-in-reverse, 59-year-old Author Baldwin leaps...
...line has held opposition to a stand-still in each game, while the backfield has shown considerable efficiency in to-talling up large scores. Against Brown--rated as an Ivy League power in pre-season predictions--Dartmouth ground out 35 points while holding the Bruins scoreless...