Word: priore
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...time the last volume appeared in 1999, O'Brian's tales of Captain Jack Aubrey and his shipmate Dr. Stephen Maturin had become Harry Potter for grownups. Each new book was a heavily anticipated publishing event among not only weekend sailors but also people whose only prior encounter with seafaring had been Sloop John B. By now 8 million copies have been sold. And at O'Brian's death in 2000, William F. Buckley called him "the most evocative writer on the sea since Homer...
...terrorists declared war on America and on the civilized world many years before September 11, 2001." CONDOLEEZZA RICE, National Security Adviser, in a speech, faulting prior administrations for ignoring the mounting terrorist threat...
Russell Crowe is hardly the first Hollywood star to gain a reputation for surly, iconoclastic behavior. MARLON BRANDO, the movies' original bad boy, made the first of his two TIME cover appearances prior to the release of his film Desiree...
...YORK, N.Y.—Harvard coach Tim Murphy has often said that his team, in its present form, is not the same as it was when the original depth charts were drawn up prior to the season’s first snap...
...look at what he’s done based on very little experience, except for maybe a couple of examples in the Dartmouth game, he’s performed very well,” Murphy said. “We averaged in the first two games prior to Dartmouth 40 points a game and 500 yards a game with him, which obviously would compare favorably with Ryan Fitzpatrick, so we’re very pleased with Garrett...