Word: prior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Samp said that prospective voters must prove three things to register: that they are 18 or older, that they have been a physical resident of Cambridge for at least 30 days prior to the election (in this case November 6), and that Cambridge is their home...
...vice president had resigned his office prior to the ratification of the 25th Amendment, the office would have remained unoccupied until a new vice president had been elected by the nation...
...Bert Campanaris who provided the home town heroics, as he rapped a Mike Cuellar pitch over everything in the 11th to put Oakland ahead, 2-1, in the series. Cuellar had allowed only three hits prior to that in a brilliant duel with the As southpaw Ken Holtzman...
...Prior to the development during the past century of huge concentrations of urban population, even the failure of the nation state might not have been completely catastrophic. But today, if we fail to develop a viable world community, the collapse of civilization may be total...
Then there was the O.A.S. agent who was sent to Athens just prior to De Gaulle's May 1963 visit. The agent's mission: to shoot the general with a special camera that fired bullets. The gunman lost his fake identity papers during a lively evening at a local taverna and refused to take the risk without getaway documents. A new set arrived a day too late, and all he got was a photograph showing how close he had been to De Gaulle...