Word: previously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...runners approached a newspaper office that had been destroyed by bombs the previous night, a dozen policemen braced for trouble. Shots rang out, and soon army reinforcements arrived in armored personnel carriers, firing at the activists and running over bystanders in the process, "People were falling like pins in a bowling alley," said one horrified shopkeeper. By the tune the shooting ended six hours later, the streets were littered with 32 bodies, and the country had slipped one step closer to anarchy...
...industry profits leaped 70 per cent over the previous year, provoking a tremendous public outcry and numerous congressional investigations. Yet Congress took no serious action to prevent this from happening again once the furor faded. This year the percentage rises in profit have been up to three times as high. If the government cannot establish an "all-American" oil company now, it will lose the opportunity forever--the chance to join the rest of the Western, capitalist, industrialized world in fielding a state-owned competitor...
Princeton's Jennings, who has left tattered course records, wherever she roams, bettered the previous Fairmount Park record with a time of 15:48. Beckford, who also beat the old course record, followed 19 seconds behind with...
BLUE LINES: The Eastern College Hockey Association has reversed a previous ruling and will require all players to wear facemasks this season...
...Connor was fired from the police department last December after a routine hearing and an internal investigation. He had worked for the University for nine years with no previous suspensions...