Word: prior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Molotov submitted his own plan for Germany. It had a familiar sound. He suggested that the four powers sign a peace treaty with a united Germany-but made no mention of guaranteeing free elections first. Essentially his proposal was a rehash of what the Russians proposed in 1952. No prior commitments (such as EDC) would be permitted the new government, its arms would be limited to "tasks of a purely internal character" and its borders to what was left it at Potsdam...
...been published at this time. Pointing out that the charge "is perhaps connected . . . with the return from visits to the Soviet Union and Iron Curtain countries of Guatemalan Communists Victor Manuel Gutierrez and Jose Manuel Fortuny," State said: "The United States views the issuance of this false accusation immediately prior to the Tenth Inter-American Conference as a Communist effort to disrupt the work of this conference." In other words, the real plot in the situation was less of a plot than a scenario -a sort of Reichstag fire in reverse, masterminded in Moscow and designed to divert the attention...
Burton, a Rapublican, was appointed to the Supreme Court Oct. 1, 1945, by expresident Havry Truman. Prior to his appointement, he had served as senator from his home state of Ohio. He received a LL.B. from the Law School in 1912, after which he practiced law in Cleveland. In 1935, he was elected mayor of Cleveland, a post he held until...
There has been no freshman league this year prior to the formation of the present one. The movement for Yardling hockey was started by two hockey enthusiasts, John Read and Steve Hamlet...
...days prior to Christmas vacation," the letter stated, "only five days of regularly scheduled varsity practice were possible on our present uncovered rink." The increased difficulty of maintaining ice during warmer February was emphasized...