Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blood and tears and anger had ended. Sooner than any other people who had felt German bombs, Britons felt pity for the defeated enemy. Last week a united House of Commons protested hotly against the continuation of Germany's misery-and against the chaos into which a destitute Germany would drag Europe...
...triumph was short; Perón no sooner fell than he rose again like Antaeus, seemingly stronger than ever (TIME, Oct. 29). Braden's confirmation as Assistant Secretary was before the Senate, and his critics set upon him in full...
Fair to Foul. In Washington, Navy Secretary James Vincent Forrestal, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King and other Navymen wondered about the effect on the U.S. public of this stirring performance and great publicity show. An epoch was ended. As any sailor knows, every fair wind sooner or later blows foul. In the aftermath of every major war which the U.S. has waged in the past 80 years, public sympathy has veered; in the fog of na tional policy, overtaken by its own rust, the Navy has all but foundered...
...Senators were sympathetic, they asked only questions that gave George Marshall a chance to beef up his arguments. He conceded that victory might have come sooner if there had been a unified department "in the period when we were struggling to build up power." He emphasized the waste inherent in a dual system, e.g., duplicate hospitals, one Army and one Navy, side by side on Espiritu Santo. General Marshall also anticipated one of the main lines of the Navy's counterattack: he urged that Congress should not bother itself with details now, but should lay down the broad principle...
First to Fight. Longer than most men, he had seen and feared the conflict that brought him back to Washington five years ago. Sooner than most, he had learned that there was no passive defense against aggression. As Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State in 1931, he had spoken out almost alone against the Japs' first thrust at China. From then on he had refused to recognize Axis conquest, even when it was unpopular to refuse...