Word: prior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nasser, needing a mass political base, thought he could use the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood thought it could use Nasser. Both miscalculated, and a quiet duel for mastery began. Mild-looking Hodeiby offered to support the soldiers, if Nasser would submit all their proposals for prior approval. Nasser politely declined, instead offered Hodeiby three Cabinet posts for his Brotherhood. After some parleying, the Supreme Guide angrily refused to let his followers join the new regime. Still the cautious wooing continued; there was no open break...
...countess will always be remembered by Elsa as the "great broncobuster of the banal, bathos, pathos and hypocrisy-that makes up what we call modern society." From Manhattan. Eleanor Holm Rose, estranged wife of Showman Billy Rose, flew off to Nevada, where by lingering for six weeks prior to April 10 she can divorce Billy, thus qualify for a settlement jackpot of $30,000-a-year alimony, plus a $200,000 bonus...
...Prior to last night, it had been rumored that the other five Independent councilmen had pledged not to vote...
...youths were put in a detention cell prior to being charged with murder. "We're going to the electric chair," Wepman bawled at other prisoners. "Where are you going?" Harlow ignored him. Harlow was reading Dryden...
This is twice as old as the proved age of his next-door neighbor, the primitive man from Folsom. Said Anthropologist Hibben: "This is not geological guesswork. It's an exact, mathematical method of dating. A great many skeptics did not believe man existed in the New World prior to 10,000 years ago. We now have incontrovertible proof...