prewar

How To Use prewar In A Sentence

• Most prewar kitchens had ceramic tile countertops and backsplashes, and many of the original patterns and colors are now back in production.
• In prewar days, she had occupied her time with a little leisurely sewing or gardening and reading her library books, her gentle reveries interrupted only by afternoon tea brought to her on a tray.
• Ammunition stocks disappeared as artillery fired projectiles far in excess of prewar projections.
• Since all of the above are inventions of the high-growth period that lingered into the 1990s, I think that what we are seeing now is a combination of commercialized polish (once reserved for the massification of Taisho middle class culture and is now falling along with depato) and fast 風土 with prewar styles of community organization (rural village youth organization or collections of young people around an urban nagaya - always pretty randy). Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Yanmama Boom
• Incidentally, the German Wehrmacht never officially used the word blitzkrieg -- literally, "lightning war" -- though it did appear in several prewar German military publications. Wired Top Stories
• Such a policy would change the atmosphere and call the Abkhaz bluff -- forcing them to negotiate in earnest and confront the issue that holds the key to their future status: Abkhaz responsibilities to their prewar Georgian population. Bullies of the Caucasus
• Having a new high-rise next to a prewar tenement is the sort of great juxtaposition of past and present that keeps New York City interesting," she said. Council Aids West Side Housing
• In Eric Ambler's prewar thrillers, the interest (in Auden's words) is ‘the ethical and eristic conflict between good and evil, between Us and Them.’
• In the late summer of 2008, Judt was diagnosed with the variant of motor neurone disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis? or in America as Lou Gehrig's disease, after a famous prewar baseball player? Tony Judt obituary
• Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about British prewar intelligence on Iraq misstated the location cited by President Bush in his State of the Union address when he talked about Iraqi efforts to acquire uranium.