Word: prior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since Harvard has been here since 1636, I would certainly feel that it has some prior right to consideration in its important expansion," Ward declared...
Plenty of Advice. The grim effects of this change of fortune became more apparent to Nixon as he moved into New York City for three days of conferences and huddles in his Waldorf-Astoria suite prior to his TV debate. Not only was Kennedy surging in the big-vote eastern states and winning adulation in the streets, but the Nixon camp itself was showing its first signs of gloom and discouragement. Gone was the confident prediction that Nixon would win or lose in one big sweep-the win to be based, hopefully, on his clear superiority in leadership...
...while the spurious debate flickers on about what the U.S. should do (when it can do nothing) so does another sham--the American embargo on Cuba trade. This is a sham, because the major commodities in the once-flourishing Cuba-U.S. trade had already been closed off prior to the embargo, and because American shippers are already transferring the few essential items that Cuba still needs from this country through Canada, which has publicly stated that it will tolerate no restrictions on its Cuba trade. The embargo is thus failing, since none of America's hemispheric allies will...
Last week, the New York Post made its own proposal to break the stalemate: The National Cancer Institute should quit making favorable prior evaluation a condition, because adequate data simply do not exist. Ivy should be allowed to determine the drug dosage, because of his experience, but should not be on the evaluating panel...
Discarding his prepared text, Governor G. Mennen Williams of Michigan said that peace and freedom go together ("like ham and eggs, I almost said"), that we need "to mobilize the moral and spiritual forces of the world" in a Project Mankind. In an interview prior to his speech, Williams said Kennedy would get a National Peace Agency bill through Congress, and that unilateral steps toward disarmament, except for a test moratorium "get onto dangerous ground...