Word: prior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black and white, who's playing and who's not, and let's go out there and give it a shot--for us. Scrap everyone else--school pride and all that garbage. Let's just try to play one game one time for us, just like the old days prior to the start of the season when we used to go down to the gym and play...
...Frank's case is less troubling than Lukens's. Lukens essentially abused a child; Frank was manipulated by a sleazy adult with more than 10 prior convictions. Lukens turned to hired sex because he had an admitted fetish for Blacks, according to the child; Frank said he turned to prostitutes after 45 years of repressing his sexuality. Afraid to come out of the closet, Frank said he had to turn to illegal methods of fulfillment...
...draft, approved by the ruling party Politburo, is expected to be discussed in the party central committees of the republics prior to the meeting of the 250-member national Central Committee next month in Moscow...
...takes place in roughly the same universe as Lodge's prior two novels: the imaginary campus of Rummidge University in England. But unlike the two earlier works, which ranged over the entire globe, Nice Work confines itself almost entirely to the city of Rummidge, which, as the author explains, "occupies, for the purposes of fiction, the space where Birmingham is to be found on maps of the so-called real world...
...Prior to the high court's ruling this summer, such a suit would have seemed frivolous and hopeless. But it is a measure of how far we've come--or, more accurately, how far backwards we've slid--that such ridiculous legal action could now stand a reasonable chance of success...