Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Businessmen are not looking upon the decline in war work with fear or dismay but . . . with relief. Readjustment must come . . . and the sooner the better. A tendency to view the reconversion prospect with greater optimism is in evidence...
...heart of the veto issue. The Russians wanted to interpret the veto so that one power could shut off discussion even in the Security Council. At this point Stettinius took his stand and saved the conference. He told Molotov, in a formal note, that the U.S. would sooner have no charter at all than one with this restriction. Meanwhile, Harry Hopkins in Moscow put it up to Stalin. The Russians gave...
...Allied landing on the China coast is needed-the sooner the better. But when the Allies have successfully invaded Japan itself, then Chinese troops should be able to deal with any Japanese forces left on the Asiatic mainland. ¶Japanese surrender is unlikely, and the process of battering Japan into final, total defeat will probably take more than a year and a half, thus running on into...
...thoughts of self and life." Sugar King, Aiichiro Fujiyama announced that: "Japan's big business is not in any way interested in anything short of a total victory." Tokyo's motor transport was drafted for defense. Writers were enlisted for home-front propaganda. Cried Radio Tokyo: "The sooner the enemy comes, the better for us, for our battle array is complete...
...there. Eighty-six thousand of you have already flown or sailed to South Amer ica; some day after the war 354,000 of you hope to take off for the Spanish Main! More than 250,000 of you have been to Europe, some of you many times; now, sooner or later, some 482,000 of you expect to cross the Atlantic -and that is actually 84,000 more Americans than embarked for all foreign ports...