Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Resistance and of their Vichyite captors. For about half the way, it is a chronicle of torture: the desperate bravery of the Maquis in refusing to talk, the fiendish brutality of the Vichyites in trying to make them. The prisoners, afraid that a youngster among them will sooner or later be tormented into blabbing, strangle...
...sooner was the session convened than members of the opposition began shouting for the Finance Minister to discuss the budget. The Diet recessed four minutes later, and Izumiyama's frantic colleagues tried to revive him: they drove him home in an open car, then back again; finally they took him to the Diet medical room, where stimulants were injected. But Izumiyama was out cold...
Where Were You? In Sterling, Ill., Albert D. Martin sued two policemen for $10,000, complained that if they had arrested him for drunken driving five minutes sooner he would never have had a smashup...
...good money after bad" in China. Dr. J. H. van Roijen of The Netherlands delegation to U.N. hoped that no additional efforts would be made to save China. In the next breath, he went on to express the fear that if China went Communist all other Asiatic countries would sooner or later follow suit. "In Indonesia the repercussions would be disastrous," he said...
...colonel develops a nasty habit of passing the death sentence on everybody who frustrates or annoys him. Sooner or later, most of his ex-Army pals get on his nerves. Eventually he gets so careless about who is hanged that his wife (Ellen Drew) and his best friend (William Hoiden) run out on him. A lot of the town-folk still regard him as a hero, but at this point the movie becomes an unusual western by seeming to ask: "Is there a psychiatrist in the house...