Word: prior
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Tees only began to roll off the assembly line after World War II. For several centuries prior to this technological watershed, caddies lugged troughs of wet sand slung around their necks. The golfer tapped a spot with his driver head and the caddie molded a pinch of sand on which to perch the ball...
Barnstead admitted prior to the election that he didn't have much chance of beating the popular incumbent but in his concession speech last night he said it was important to "give the people a choice." O'Neill, now entering his thirteenth term in Congress, has not faced Republican oppostion since...
...dodging the issue, since such an amendment has little chance of passing. It must be approved not only by two-thirds of the Senate and House but by three-fourths of the states. Yet twelve states had already passed laws approving abortion in one form or other prior to the 1973 landmark Supreme Court decision allowing abortion on demand up to the third month of pregnancy...
FOUR DAYS PRIOR to the Texas primary, Ford authorized continued production of the Minuteman missile--including a new warhead for the missile--to the tune of nearly $380 million. Three months earlier, the Defense Department had discontinued Minuteman production, reporting that additional missile deployment would add little to national security and was in any case not worth the cost...
LaTremouille also believes that the construction of the high school would be illegal because Massachusetts law prohibits the removal of any park land without prior approval of the courts...