Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe's needs, the U.S. now faces a problem of oversupply. One result was an order last week by the Texas Railroad Commission, which cut the maximum allowable output per well from 54% to 46.7% of capacity. By December, oilmen expect that the limit will shrink to its pre-crisis norm...
Mask of Fear. Dr. Hartogs' eight-letter thoughts on four-letter words are confusing enough to make a saint swear. On the one hand, he says that excessive swearing may be a "symptom of pre-schizophrenic personality disintegration." On the other, he regards the growing use of obscene language as "a rising index of spiritual freedom." But he can't quite tell: it may also be a "mask of fear" and "the last resort of the non-achiever." This is simply to say what has always been known-that dirty words are not always to be taken literally...
...increasing at a runaway rate in the U.S., despite the efficacy of antibiotics, and discovered cases of children who had contracted VD before they attained their teens. On the other hand, there are refreshing notes, like SPORT'S story of the mighty minnows who are keeping the U.S. pre-eminent in girls' swimming competition...
...began to buy back in. He had acquired over 400,000 shares when he was approached this summer by Levin, who wanted to buy Bronfman's stock or get his aid in another proxy fight. When Bronfman refused both propositions, Levin decided to sell. He will make a pre-tax profit of more than $19 million. For its part, Time Inc. acted independently of Bronfman, bought the stock strictly as an investment. President James A. Linen described the purchase as an opportunity to enter "the rapidly developing technology of the moving image, as well as television programming...
...Duke of Wellington, Cleopatra, and Alfred the Great, not to mention such odd fictive figures as the Bagman and the Crook. In a novel of this picaresque kind, an orgy is to be expected sooner or later. Gog's orgy comes promptly and seems to be under pre-Christian Druidic auspices, though the Marquis de Sade and Herr von Sacher-Masoch are present in postures appropriate to their eponymous status. Gog meets his spiritual twin, an evil ogre called Magog. He also finds a bastard brother, and eventually learns his own name, Arthur George Griffin. A baleful woman named...