Word: prior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prior to his appointment as Presidential advisor, Kistiakowsky was head of the project which prepared the explosives necessary to detonate the first atomic bomb...
...eminently, the average student term paper reflects a lack of personal involvement of the writer in his subject. The personal response is blurred, buried, missing altogether. Unengaged in the work of the course during the term, the student has neither the time, nor the prior interest in the material (when he sits down to write) to cultivate his own responses to the reading and to write enthusiastically about them. What graders report missing in term papers is the sense of an immediate student relationship to the work at hand. This is a relationship that grows up through time, that must...
...States. Describing herself as "totally ignorant on political matters," the widow of Nobel-Laureate Ernest Hemingway remained tight-lipped about the Castro regime ("For some of our friends in Cuba, the change in government has been better and for some, worse") as she laid over in Tampa prior to "going to New York to talk with lawyers about the estate." Her subsequent stop: Ketchuni, Idaho, where Hemingway shot himself two months ago. "Perhaps I'll do some hunting," thought Mary Hemingway. "I'd like to get a deer this season...
...during the next ten years. Much of the money, said Dillon, would be advanced in long-term loans "at very low or zero rates of interest." Dillon made it clear to even the most sensitive Latin ears that he was putting forward "a plan for debate, not a condition prior to aid." U.S. dollars were only one part of a program that called for land and tax reforms, the creation of a Latin American common market, a solid increase in production and exports. The goal: to raise Latin American per-capita income by "at least 2.5%" a year, to encourage...
...that, for Bowles personally, the trip was a well-timed chance to get away from Washington. In the weeks before he left, Bowles had twice been summoned to private lunches with President Kennedy. The President was irked because Bowles alone, of top Administration officials, had leaked word of his prior opposition to the Bay of Pigs fiasco in Cuba. But fundamentally his displeasure went deeper. Bowles was originally put into the State Department to be shop administrator, and had preferred instead to act more like a policymaker in his own right...