Word: soon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Calvin Coolidge assured the country that it could "regard the present with satisfaction and anticipate the future with optimism." His successor, Herbert Hoover, said that the U.S. would soon see the end of poverty. Only a few public figures raised doubts. One of them was Financier Paul Warburg, who warned in March 1929 that unless the Federal Reserve acted to curb speculation, there would be a collapse and "a general depression involving the entire country...
...baptized Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in what is now Skoplje, Yugoslavia. Even at the age of twelve she wanted to "go out and give the love of Christ." By the time she was 18, Agnes had joined the Irish branch of Loreto nuns who were working in Calcutta, where she soon began teaching geography at St. Mary's High School...
When the church granted her permission to lay aside her Loreto habit and take up the blue-edged, coarse cotton white sari that became the uniform of the Missionaries of Charity, young women from St. Mary's soon joined...
...wife Midge Decter. With sharp logic and biting wit, they drew considerable blood as they assailed radicalism on all fronts: its elitism, coercive utopianism, contempt for the common American, penchant for Government intervention, tolerance of Communist totalitarianism and its fatuous call for revolution. Intellectually at any rate, they soon had their adversaries on the run; many of the most voluble leftists of the period have faded from the polemical scene: Noam Chomsky, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Staughton Lynd, Jerry Rubin, Andrew Kopkind ("Morality, like politics, starts at the barrel of a gun"). The Commentary crowd, meanwhile, carries on the battle...
...schoolboys in question have been around since the early '30s, when Sidney Joseph Perelman first began publishing his superbly crafted hilarity in the pages of The New Yorker. The magazine's readers soon developed a tart tooth for Perelman's brand of satire, a mix of burlesque and Joycean wordplay boldly colored by a fastidious disdain for the fake, the tawdry and the pompous. Even the titles of Perelman's "bits of embroidery," as he called his pieces, set new boundaries for comic absurdity: Somewhere a Roscoe; Beat Me, Post-Impressionist Daddy; Amo, Amas, Amat, Amamus...