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Word: pre (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...starts early in the morning in Hopkinton when runners of every shape, size, sex and mentality show up for the pre-race rituals--stretching, taping, slathering on the atomic balm, and (hopefully) unloading part of the carbohydrate feast of the night before. Warning for you prospective runners; the lines start forming for the john...

Author: By Ann R. Scott, | Title: At 23 Miles the Crowd Won't Let You Stop | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

...been the guy who's kept us together this year, and today was no exception," Crimson co-captain Jim Dales said after the match. "He always played so bad last year because he was pre-med, but now that he's into med school all he thinks about is golf...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Linksters Sweep MIT, Bates | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

...meticulous descriptions of the victims and the circumstances of their deaths, making The Chain of Chance both a forensic pathologist's delight and a challenge to armchair sleuths, because, hidden among the barrage of details are the clues to this mystery. To understand them one might have to be pre-med, but the novel's tendency toward the arcane does not greatly detract from its suspense or from the fascination of its conclusion...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Murder by Chance | 4/17/1979 | See Source »

Italy's President Alessandro Pertini had dissolved parliament while the congress was in session, thereby turning it into a rousing pre-campaign rally. In late spring, Italians will go to the polls to elect a new parliament from which will come the country's 42nd government since the overthrow of Mussolini 36 years ago. In effect, Berlinguer has declared that the elections-which take place two years ahead of schedule-will be a referendum on whether or not the Communists should be included in a coalition of "democratic unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: An Election for Democratic Unity | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...varsity eight returns to the Charles on April 21 for the annual Stein Cup encounter with Brown. Parker touted the Bruins as a threat to take the San Diego title and Brown coach Vic Michelson vociferously concurred with Parker's assessment in pre-meet statements to the San Diego press. Says cox You: "They're going to be out to get us after what we did to them...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Heavies Grab San Diego Classic | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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