Word: precursor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teams from the Northeast, the Crimson qualified for the upcoming Atlantic Coast Championship--a precursor to Nationals...
Only now is the U.S. getting around to testing an antisatellite system, which might be a precursor to Star Wars; the Soviets already have an operational, albeit more primitive, ASAT. The Soviets are also experimenting with lasers that might be deployed in space. Challenged on that activity, they say, rather implausibly, that it is for "medical applications...
...which are frequently consequent upon any confideable member of the students being together at entertainments, as well as to guard against extravagance and needless expense, all undergraduates are prohibited from making any festive entertainment in the College or its vicinity," according to the laws of 1763, a very distant precursor of today's student handbook...
...cash. And in U-Hall 4 if you find Michael Spence. Say, "Relax a little, don't be so tense." For if all goes well and you coddle Prez. Bok. A University Chair you will find in your sock. Just think of ole' Roso, your precursor as dean. He gave us the Core, now he's not to be seen...
...called "new wave," though, is hardly new at all. The punk movement was simply a case of fashion catching up to where the fringe movements of art had been for years. If we look back as far as the 1910s, we can see a distinct and sometimes exact precursor of the punks' nihilism in a group called the Dada. What is new about the punks is that they're not artists or intellectuals. Instead, they're ordinary, often suburban kids, who have no real idea what they're unhappy about--they know only that they're unhappy. What was once...