Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest puzzle of all: Air Force investigators could not find remnants of the jet plane that Lieutenant Steeves said he had abandoned at 33,000 ft. This raised another question: Was it as severely damaged as Steeves said it was or did it continue to fly on its pre-set course until it ran out of fuel...
...play is not a whodunit; it is rather a whatdidhe. It concerns James Callifer, who, good newspaperman that he is, tries to ferret out the story of what happened in the potting shed 30 years ago--something so traumatic that it blanked out all memories of his pre-adolescence and caused both him and his uncle to be shunned by the rest of his family...
With Garcia nominated, and the Nacionalista Party thus returning to pre-Magsaysay normalcy, Manila sat back to await the convention of the opposition Liberal Party, headed by 62-year-old José Yulo, onetime Philippine correspondent for John Foster Dulles' legal firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, and co-author (with U.S. Army Major Dwight D. Eisenhower*) of the first law passed by the new Philippine commonwealth...
...Kerr's conception is more than American; it is universal, and without beginning or end. Kerr's Goodchild, while an American Odysseus and Natty Bumpo, is also a race-memory of the desire for freedom inherent in man's soul from the dimly-remembered dawn of pre-recorded history. Goodchild's successful conquering of his own soul and youthful vigor symbolize the constant reincarnation of man's unquenchable spirit; the white dove of his lofty aspirations columns heavenward, linking Classic and American aspirations, and those of all eternity
...just blinked. To a friend troubled by Soviet tyranny he wrote: "Don't lose your spirit. Remember, liberty is not everything." Slim and younger looking than his 42 years, Antonio Giolitti bears one of Italy's biggest political names. His Liberal grandfather was five times Premier of pre-Mussolini Italy, and it is still remembered that "under Giolitti 100 lire in paper was worth 101 in gold." Young Antonio, brought up under Fascism, became a Communist in 1940, organized the famed partisan Garibaldi division during the war, was badly wounded fighting in his native Piedmont mountains. Trading...