Word: prior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long been an American boast that we have a Government of laws and not of men. We believe that any study of recent decisions of the Supreme Court will raise at least considerable doubt as to the validity of that boast . . . Frequent differences and occasional overrulings of prior decisions in constitutional cases cause us grave concern as to whether individual views of the members of the court [on] what is wise or desirable do not unconsciously override a more dispassionate consideration of what is or is not constitutionally warranted...
...begins in the summer of 1941, when he was a Marine officer and a flying instructor on the naval air base at Pensacola. He was, as usual, restless. "I was forever going somewhere but never getting anywhere. For the most part I was always leaving some geographical location just prior to my being asked to leave." Marine Corps Headquarters was getting tiresome about the growing difference between his debts and his income, there were frowns from his superiors because of his drinking, and the chance of getting promoted from first lieutenant to captain seemed slim indeed. Then...
...rules of the game, Yarborough should be far and away ahead in next week's Democratic primary because he is well known from four unsuccessful statewide campaigns prior to his election to the Senate. But Yarborough forces have grown unaccountably edgy as the primary nears, are alibiing in advance that a man with Bill Blakley's money could even buy an upset...
...Cigarette smokers improve their chances of living longer if they quit smoking. Those who stopped "prior to the start of the survey" have a death rate 1.4 times that of nonsmokers, whereas for all cigarette smokers (any amount) the rate is 1.66 times that of nonsmokers...
...estate circles thought Boston Port had bought the lucrative downtown Little Building, what actually happened was that Goldfine got personal title to the property through a loan from the company, secured only by a third mortgage. He handed the second mortgage to Mrs. Goldfine, who thus would have had prior claim in case the deal went sour...