Word: prior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little tough" and that he never meant to cast "any reflection on the individual young men who joined the National Guard during the Korean conflict." He kept right on plugging the six-months-training directive, pointing out that "more than 80% of the National Guard today has had no prior military training...
...supposed family-but one branch, the German House of Hesse, to which the Empress of Russia had belonged, declined to accept the newcomer. The Czar, it was said, had deposited some 20 million rubles in England before the revolution, and the House of Hesse wanted to assure itself a prior right to the money...
...that the Defense Department considered the Guard an inadequate fighting force, since eighty percent of it had had no prior military training...
This reader feels his isolated self-personification more or less inadequate to the occasion of life prior to death, and he seeks purgation in books. But needless to say, he who cannot live with himself does not find is easier to live with another. Rather than submit to a book, he steels himself against it, with alcohol, or inattention, or self-consciousness...
...Gulf of Aqaba narrows. He threw out hints of how the Assembly might keep the U.N. Emergency Force in position both at the gulf narrows and at key points along both sides of the Israeli-Egyptian border. This was the course that the U.S., pressing Israel for prior surrender, now sought...