Word: soon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That could happen as soon as the middle of next week...
Bryant sits forward in his chair again, always ready to talk shop. He points to the major problem which he will leave the library system--soon to be under Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor. Harvard's tradition of excellence must not be sacrificed to multiplying costs, he insists. "In a library like Harvard's, whose expenditures are much larger than any University in the world, there is a necessity to maintain our commitments to collecting." From a man who first got interested in library work while dissecting German war papers at Stanford's Hoover Institution, this feeling comes...
Bubble-Yum lovers make way; Hubba Bubba will soon be here...
...eventually found a job as a salesman in a department store. No sooner had he done so than the Army transferred her to West Berlin on an "unaccompanied tour," with no accommodation for a spouse. Richard went along anyway; this time he settled for work as a handyman. Soon there was a new complication on the domestic front. "The baby was planned," says Richard. "The situation after Stephen's birth...
...recently as 1972, it looked as if the death penalty would soon go the way of the lash and the rack. That year, in Furman vs. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment, as Justice Potter Stewart put it, "in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual." It had been applied "wantonly" and "freakishly"-most often against poor blacks. But four years later, the court approved new capital punishment laws designed by individual states to be less arbitrary. Typically, the laws allow juries to hand down...