Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, a Harvard team, consigned to the second division by the pre-season experts, rose up in one of the Ivy League's great performances to humble these same Indians, 19-14, and went on to tie for the title...
...brilliant" and "faultless"; in the Mediterranean, with ready access to any war zones in the Mid-East, the Soviets have recently established a fleet of at least 50 ships and have secured use of an excellent port in Algeria. NATO forces, on the other hand, are understaffed even by pre-invasion levels, and the U.S. Sixth Fleet, which has been weakened by sending reinforcements to the fleet off Vietnam, will probably lose its home ports in Spain within the next year...
...pre-confrontation indignation ebbs. Watch that anti-authoritarian hang-up, man. These aren't the days of Babbit, you know. Things have changed. Business is ghetto-bound and groovy and so forth. New managerial elite. They don't discriminate, and if they do, they're sure not going to tell you about it. These are politically sensitive times, after all. By 1970, half the nation under 25, you're a valuable commodity. You know, he's probably going to offer you the job right there. He's going to say you're a nice Jewish boy, just what...
...well-precisioned West German crew, clocked at 6:07.00 for the 2000-meter Xochimilco course, captured the gold medal and upset pre-race favorite New Zealand (6:10.43), which eventually finished fourth...
...NIXON ORGANIZATION had done its best to mend the busted local fences left in the wake of the Miami convention. A pre-speech press release lauded Massachusetts' great and progressive colleges, with their concerned and alienated students. Painfully aware that the Nixon-Agnew "law and order" appeal wasn't going over so well in Massachusetts, party bosses had imported four Negroes, complete with frisbie-sized "Nixon's The One" buttons, to sit in the audience. On the stage, Senator Edward Brooke and black Congressional candidate Allen Freeman added a liberal touch...