Word: soon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow, Bohlen now and then felt it was his expert's prerogative to differ sharply with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who once complained that there were two State Departments-his own and Bohlen's. As soon as Bohlen's standard four-year tour was up in 1957, Dulles took him out of Moscow and sent him to Manila. After Dulles' death, top State Department careermen urged Secretary of State Christian A. Herter to bring Chip Bohlen back into his special field of U.S.-Soviet relations. This week the State Department announced that Expert Bohlen...
Policemen asked the same question, soon discovered that Paul Harold Orgeron was an ex-convict and sometime tile layer, syphilitic, illiterate, and obsessed by dark fantasies of power and gods. He had been married, divorced, had remarried the same woman and been divorced again. He had cowed his daughter Zelda with abuse and with ugly accusations of promiscuity. He had fathered a son by his stepdaughter Betty Jean, who had run away in fear and shame. And in all the world-in some tormented way-he loved only the memory of Betty Jean and their son Dusty...
...become separated from it . . . I am convinced personally that such an outcome would be incredible and disastrous. Algeria being what it is at the present time, and the world what we know it to be, secession would carry in its wake the most appalling poverty, frightful political chaos, and, soon after, the warlike dictatorship of the Communists. But this devil must be exorcised, and by the Algerians themselves...
...periods of reaction against Catholicism; some at least of the others have examined their religious beliefs from their vantage point in college. The examination of one's beliefs is almost essential to every intelligent being, or else the beliefs will not expand as the individual develops, and will soon become empty and useless. Thus every Catholic should possess an examined faith, and he should let others learn from it, share it. But first he must make it real and alive for himself...
...independently-minded member of a virtually extinct party, Quincy became a unique figure on Capitol Hill. The Federalist demise began in 1800 with John Adams' defeat; in 1804, only seven Senators and 25 out of 140 Representatives belonged to the party. Quincy soon became the leader of this ineffectual minority, which sought reconciliation with Great Britain against the menace of Napoleon...