Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooner wound up a mild flirtation with a lunchroom girl than two men chivvy him into an alley and work him back & forth like a rockinghorse, one hammering at his solar plexus, the other at his kidneys. And he has hardly got his breath back when he has to watch a huge criminal (Fred Steele) force a small damp grey one (Elisha Cook Jr.) to drink a glass of poison. After that it is only a question of time before the big man has laid out Marlowe with a fistful of small auto parts...
...neutrons, which can wander almost at will through most kinds of matter. When they hit an atom's nucleus, they produce a dangerous gamma ray and lose a little of their speed. Eventually they are "captured," but the nucleus which captures them is apt to be unstable. Sooner or later it may disintegrate with another burst of rays, alpha, beta or gamma. Some elements, riddled with neutrons, quiet down in minutes or hours. Others radiate thousands of years...
...Every critic, however roughly he may seem to wisecrack away the achievements of his enemies, the creators, will sooner or later shyly unlock his playbox...
...talked price increases but, in general, did not make them. Reason: cotton cloth output is up 35% over the preWar average, and supply is expected to catch up to demand before the close of 1946. Price boosts may bring the seller's market to an end even sooner...
...sooner was he sworn in as gang boss, with the hereditary title of "Matsuzakaya the Fifth," than Matsuda began cleaning house. He reorganized the tekiyas into a modern, businesslike corporation (the Matsuda Carrying Trade Co.), ordered his followers to wear Western-style sack suits instead of the traditional drab blue coat and tight white shorts. He also talked about taking the "black" out of the black market, commanded the adoption of "legitimate, ethical and businesslike" methods, prohibited Matsuzakayans from dealing in stolen goods...