Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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City councilors will discuss the traffic problem in the Harvard area with representatives of the Metropolitan Transit Authority at an open, pre-election meeting next Monday...
These are the realities which must be faced by America's foreign policy. The reputation and prestige of the U.S., unshakable not long ago, rest on softer ground now than ever since pre-War days. In planning its strategy and defenses, Washington cannot afford to neglect European attitudes and opinions, even if those sentiments do not appear immediately to bear upon this country's safety or defense...
...senior class. So Mrs. Betty Stevens, English teacher and sponsor of this year's senior class, decided to try something different. Instead of seeing her charges mill around all evening at a rough-house gymnasium party, she would get the seniors to lead the freshmen on a pre-Halloween trip through a haunted house. Principal William Hobert Sallee, 60, got into the spirit of the thing, thought the kids might get a kick out of finding him hanging in a dark room...
...Such pre-game gamesmanship recalled the New York Yankees of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, who pumped batting-practice home runs into the stands like grapeshot before the first World Series game of 1932. Demoralized by the sight, the goggle-eyed Chicago Cubs faded in four straight games. Similarly unnerved by news about the Sooners, the overrated Panthers never got started...
...touchdown dash by Right Half Clendon Thomas. "We have a heck of a lot of polishing to do," said modest Oklahoma Co-Captain Don Stiller, just as if he had not noticed the final 26-0 score. The remark made almost as much sense as Coach Wilkinson's pre-game prediction: "Frankly, we don't expect to win at all." ¶ Bogged down by a driving rainstorm, Texas A. & M. needed every one of three versatile quarterbacks to salvage a tough game from Maryland...