The former foreign minister, who said on the eve of the war he would rather die than be taken into U.S. custody, had suffered two recent heart attacks.
Indeed, beginning with this still life, the joining of the skull with other symbols appears in Braque's mature work only on the eve of World War II, with these combinations continuing during the Nazi Occupation.
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On the eve of World War II, African Americans in the North had achieved real political leverage.
This description could equally fit Edwardian Britain on the eve of World War I and America today.
Instead, on his return to Pakistan on the eve of World War II he borrowed money from his father to set up a factory to dehydrate and can vegetables and fruits, which he then sold to the British troops.
Fred returned to the U.S. on the eve of World War II and built an even larger fortune around Rock Island Refining, a refinery and oil-gathering pipeline system in southern Oklahoma, and a part-interest in a refinery outside of Minneapolis.
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Smart, funny, fearless and brazen, he's the go-to kid in Bahman Ghobadi's "Turtles Can Fly, " a film of sometimes hallucinatory power set in Iraqi Kurdistan on the eve of the second Iraq war.
At the same time post-war baby boomers are on the eve of retirement: the number of people aged 65 or over is expected to rise by 40m.
Mr Obama will be incandescent if Israel provokes a war which he has said is not yet necessary, and on the eve of an election.
They played a small, but real, part in fulfilling the prediction of a new world war that Wilson had made in Pueblo, Colorado, in September 1919, on the eve of the vote on the League of Nations.
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