Word: pre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pompan, in fact, doesn't break down in any phase of life. A study in ceaseless energy, he works on his pre-med course-work non-stop sometimes even at matches and once he starts talking it's tough to make him stop...
Vanessa Redgrave is committed. She is also between acting jobs. Thus the fiery star can be found, these pre-election days in Britain, stumping the decaying Moss Side district of industrial Manchester, red hair flowing and red rosette of the Workers Revolutionary Party flapping. Redgrave seeks to become Moss Side's Member of Parliament, but most of the voters she accosts appear more concerned about jobs and high living costs than the party's proposal for a workers' militia to replace the British bobby and its jeremiads against capitalism and the monarchy. Even for such an illustrious...
...brought prosperity but not a return to pre-Depression normalcy. News, most of it threatening, came thicker and faster: the cold war, Mao's revolution in China, the Alger Hiss case, Korea. At their 1952 conventions, the first to be covered by TV, both parties were forced to consider potential nominees who had challenged the old-line bosses by going over their heads and reaching the public through the channels of journalism. The Democrats stopped Estes Kefauver, but the G.O.P. accepted Dwight Eisenhower. In the end, it mattered less to the delegates that Ike was only a nominal Republican than...
...pre-consolation effort, Martha Roberts dropped a lethargic opener to Dartmouth's Allison Hibbert...
Coach Carrie Graves is characteristically reserved, cox Lizellen LaFollette is typically optimistic, and the general feeling among the oarswomen is something approximating pre-atomic detonation...