Word: prior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ridicule is a shoe that fits so many feet it scarcely matters which one it was taken from. No prior knowledge of Mary Margaret McBride is necessary to enjoy their Mary McGoon, with her recipe for frozen ginger ale salad. One need never have heard Mary Noble, Backstage Wife to enjoy the hilariously muddled banalities of their Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife...
Then, of course, there are the usual "Hahvahd jokes". For some peculiar reason, Yalies, as do other Ivy Leaguers outside of Cambridge, find it especially amusing to talk in "Hahvahd Yahd" lingo prior to a Harvard game...
...Prior to the elections Chavez predicted that farmworkers given a choice would vote 95 per cent in favor of the UFW. But the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (CALRB), the agency in charge of the voting, reports that in elections with both unions on the ballot the Teamsters have won 59 contests covering about 10,500 workers and the UFW has won 46 covering about 6000 workers. Including elections where only one union and the no union alternatives were on the ballot, the Teamsters have 96 wins covering about 12,000 workers and the UFW has 154 covering about...
...American friend travelling with me inadvertently wandered into a side street in a Basque village just south of San Sebastian in Northern Spain. He found himself thrown against the side of a building with a machine-gun pointed at his throat by a member of the civil guard. Prior to this visit, Fascism was, for me, a storybook concept, a photograph of Hitler...
...Prior to last year, Harvard had lost to Brown only once in 14 seasons, and holds a 55-17-2 series edge overall. The Brown game used to be the one to let your little brothers use the season tickets...