Word: prior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four had received appointments for this year from their departments prior to the building takeover...
...have feeders at home. Every year prior to the last two we fed dozens of juncos, chickadees, white-crowned sparrows and the like. And up here at the courthouse, I fed other dozens on snowy days. This year there's not a solitary one. I haven't seen or heard a meadowlark in this neighborhood. East of here, across the divide, the bird population has always been ten times-at least visibly-what it is on this side. On May 18th, I drove over there. Not a single horned lark, sage, field or song sparrow, nor a solitary...
...that someday it will. When that happens, however, the U.S. armory would become subject to the same conditions that now apply to American bases in Japan: no nuclear weapons under any circumstances, and no introduction of new weaponry or dispatch of U.S. forces to combat from Japanese stations without prior consultations...
Newspapers, for the most part, agreed prior to the television speech that Kennedy had some explaining to do. The usually sympathetic Boston Globe stated editorially: "It is in his own best interest as well as the public's that all the facts should come out." The Cleveland Press, reviewing the questions left unanswered by Ted's police station statement, declared: "The public is entitled to a better explanation than it has had yet." For all its smooth carpentry, the television statement did not dispel most such doubts and questions. The New York Times, which had begun its coverage...
...Kennedy Wait So Long to Explain? His own explanation on TV: "Prior to my appearance in court, it would have been improper for me to comment on these matters." Scarcely anything he finally did say, however, could have damaged his legal case. In any event, the damage to his public case and reputation was so shattering that an early accounting was in his overriding interest. For six days the simplest details remained unexplained and were an endless source of speculation. Until Kennedy went before the cameras, a report by a county deputy sheriff, Christopher Look, that he had seen three...