Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli Ambassador, Yosef Tekoah, shouted: "I do not believe that the Security Council should be a forum for the kind of slander and abuses of any people's faith we heard just now from Ambassador Malik!" Tekoah then proceeded to bring up the Soviet Union's prewar pact with Nazi Germany, which drew a sharp protest from Malik...
...with its constant scoring, or hockey with its eruptions of violence, is America's ideal spectator sport. The conservative, hidebound sport of baseball can offer no such qualities; scoring is rare, violence a matter of tempers, not policy. The game is an echo of a vanished pre-TV, prewar America, a bygone place of leisure and tranquillity...
Frantz Fanon was born an outsider. He lived on the cusp of history, ground between implacable opposites. A black man from Martinique, Fanon grew up in the intensely French and white-oriented prewar culture of that island. Making it there, he went to France to train as a psychiatrist with whites as his patients. Then, in 1953, he moved to Algeria to direct a mental hospital crowded with North African Moslems...
...Communist Party from 1929 to 1962; of a stroke; in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The British-born son of a Tory pub owner. Buck immigrated to Canada in 1912 and helped launch the party nine years later. He faithfully toed the Kremlin line on everything from Stalin's prewar purges to the 1956 invasion of Hungary. Although the party managed to poll 111,892 votes in a 1945 federal election, the number of Communists in Canada had dwindled to fewer than 6,000 by the time he gave up the leadership for the honorary title of chairman...
...ancestors in Brittany. He followed them to French Canada and later to New Hampshire, where his grandfather would shake his lantern at lightning and dare God to strike him down. But it was Lowell, Mass., where he was born and raised, that enraptured Kerouac. It was the whole lost prewar world of Friday-night beers, Saturday ball games, dips in the brook, Krazy Kat, horror movies and 1930's popular culture. There was also football. Kerouac was a talented running back, in high school and at Columbia, where he dropped the game in favor of the literary life...