In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

Long before he reached the protection of the stage door, Andy was recognized.

Long before 1815 the Christian conscience was leading some to declare slavery wrong and to act accordingly.

Long before this, scholars had speculated that Nabonidus ' exile in Teima lay behind the story of Nebuchadnezzar's banishment and madness in Daniel chapter four.

Dorman Long, South Durham and Stewarts and Lloyds had merged as British Steel and Tube Ltd before vesting took place.

The Rump had not agreed to its own dissolution when it was dispersed by Cromwell and legislation from the period immediately before the Civil War — the Act against dissolving the Long Parliament without its own consent ( 11 May 1641 ) -- gave them the legal basis for this view.

The track " Long May You Run " is a different mix to that found on the album of the same name, featuring the harmonies of the full Crosby Stills & Nash before David Crosby and Graham Nash left the recording sessions.

Long before, however, each conquistador had promised to equally split the benefits.

Long before Diocletian, Gallienus ( r. 253 – 68 ) had already chosen Milan as the seat of his headquarters.

Born in Long Island, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced research for drug infusion pump AutoSyringe.

Long before any knowledge of electricity existed people were aware of shocks from electric fish.

Long before he had entered politics, he had denounced laissez-faire thinking.

Long before any Roman settlements, Greek navigators settled in what would become Provence.

Long before writing it he regaled friends and dinner parties with macabre tales of a childhood spent in hiding among the Polish peasantry.

# Not Long before the End ( 1969 )

*" Not Long before the End " was adapted by Doug Moench and Vicente Alcazar

Long after both Niggle and Parish have taken their journeys, the lovely field that they built together becomes a place for many travelers to visit before their final voyage into the Mountains, and it earns the name " Niggle's Parish.

Mickey Hart was born in Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island attending Lawrence High School before dropping out as a senior and leaving for Europe.

Long before all possible fission has taken place, the buildup of long-lived neutron absorbing fission byproducts impedes the chain reaction.

Long before the council became a bulwark of democracy, it rendered invaluable aid to the institution of kingship by:

Long before the first photographs were made, Chinese philosopher Mo Di and Greek mathematicians Aristotle and Euclid described a pinhole camera in the 5th and 4th centuries BC.

Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial ; but here was something there was no doubt of.

Long before the controversy Charlie Bate, noted Padstow folk advocate, recounted that in the 1970s the content and conduct of the day were carefully reviewed to avoid potential offence.

Long before this confusion was sorted out, the quagga had been hunted to extinction for meat, hides, and to preserve feed for domesticated stock.

" Long before Geoffrey, Arthur's court was well known to Welsh storytellers ; in the romance Culhwch and Olwen, written around 1100, the protagonist Culhwch invokes the names of 225 individuals affiliated with Arthur.

Around the same time, due to encouragement from influential speaker Themistocles, the Athenians also constructed the Long Walls connecting their city to the Piraeus, its port, making it effectively invulnerable to attack by land.

The idea of this name was proposed by Jim Kardach who developed a system that would allow cell phones to communicate with computers ( at the time he was reading Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's historical novel The Long Ships about Vikings and king Harald Bluetooth ).

Long term cross ownership of shares combined with a high capital tax rate greatly increases periods of asset deflation both in time and in severity.

* 1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.

Long term budgets have a time horizon of 5 – 10 years giving a vision to the company ; short term is an annual budget which is drawn to control and operate in that particular year.

The Continental Army under Washington engaged the enemy for the first time as an army of the newly independent United States at the Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the entire war.

The discovery of the Long Beach Oil Field in 1921, which proved to be the world's richest in production per-acre of the time, increased the importance of the Los Angeles Basin as a worldwide oil producer.

" Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially.

The Long Parliament comprised " a set of the greatest geniuses for government, that the world ever saw embarked together in one common cause " and whose actions produced an effect, which, at the time, made their country the wonder and admiration of the world, and is still felt and exhibited far beyond the borders of that country, in the progress of reform, and the advancement of popular liberty.

* 1961 – Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

* 1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.

Long time Mets ace Tom Seaver, who threw five one-hitters as a Met, eventually threw a no-hitter, but by then he was playing for the Cincinnati Reds.

* 1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March ; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.

Another tale tells of a man named Wu Liang ( later corrupted to Wu Long, or Oolong ) who discovered oolong tea by accident when he was distracted by a deer after a hard day's tea-picking, and by the time he remembered to return to the tea it had already started to oxidize.

In Stocks for the Long Run, Siegel mentions that since 1948, ten recessions were preceded by a stock market decline, by a lead time of 0 to 13 months ( average 5. 7 months ), while ten stock market declines of greater than 10 % in the DJIA were not followed by a recession.

Long before then, running out of time and looking for a team with which he could win again, Gretzky had been traded from the Kings at his request.

* March 30 – Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation ( Dr. Crawford Long performed the operation using ether ).

* December 27 – Anesthesia is used for childbirth for the first time ( Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia ).

Political: Louisiana Governor Earl Long used nigger in advocating full voting rights for Black Americans ; in that time, like colored and negro, it was mainstream usage in the American South.

At the time of the Great Depression ( of the 1930s ), the phrase " The Great Depression " had already been used to refer to the period 1873 – 96 ( in the United Kingdom ), or more narrowly 1873 – 79 ( in the United States ), which has since been renamed the Long Depression.

In this engagement, Staff Sergeant Andrzej Ropel, a Polish immigrant who was at the time not a citizen of the United States, and Specialist William Geraci a native of Cleveland, Ohio, who was recently assigned to 1-87 from the Divisions Long Range Surveillance Detachment, ( LRSD ) led the squad under fire to a ridgeline above the " Halfpipe.

Long legs increase the time and distance over which a jumping animal can push against the substrate, thus allowing more power and faster, farther jumps.

Apparently the time was ripe for the fish franchise concept: Long John Silver's, Captain D's and Skipper's all started about the same time.

The Long Parliament dissolved itself and for the first time in almost 20 years, there was a general election.