Word: precursor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bomber as an essential element of the American strategic triad (the other two: land-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles and sea-launched missiles). Even earlier, as the 33-year-old chief of research for the Pentagon during the Kennedy Administration, Brown had helped to kill the B-1's precursor, the high-flying B-70, as too vulnerable to Soviet air defenses. It was Brown who then ordered up the preliminary studies for the plane that evolved into the B1. This gave him a label that he disowns: "Father of the B-1." Says Brown: "Yes, I started...
...officially notified of the DES project by Chicago authorities until February 1976. She then rushed her daughter Gwendolyn, 23, to a doctor and discovered that she was afflicted with a condition known as adenosis, an abnormal cell formation also tied to DES offspring, and sometimes a precursor of cancer. Mink is especially angry that nobody notified her about the experiment. "There's no way we could know," she says. "That's the outrage...
Like McGandy, Kennedy forms her eating habits on the basis of risks. She has all but eliminated cholesterol, the precursor of heart disease, from her diet...
Truffaut's Jules and Jim is probably many people's favorite movie, and one of the great Cambridge perennials. But as far as we're concerned, the film's cloying romanticism and insipidly dreamy camera shots make this precursor of the Gatsby revival the best possible excuse to ban the Concorde and in fact all transatlantic traffic. In other words, what's small, green, croaks and hops? Now that La Crepe has left Cambridge, maybe this little pancake should take the hint and roll out for good...
...wandered off into the law business [practicing with OSS Chief William ("Wild Bill") Donovan's firm in New York]. When the Korean War came along I went back into intelligence. The cold war was very much with us. A lot of people thought this was the precursor to another overall...