prewar

His home is in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, which prewar was a more affluent district that roughly translates to “Windy Hill.”

Most of Hamas’s prewar senior leadership has been killed by Israel, and heavy fighting had fragmented the group’s lines of command.

These elites were the East Coast merchants who had prospered from the prewar Atlantic commercial boom that helped plant capitalism’s roots in North America.

She bought her first apartment in a prewar building on the Upper West Side soon after.

“The Asia Co. was one of the businesses in our community prewar, and because he did so much business with Japan, I think he was lumped in, like maybe he was one of the spies.”