Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they could "open the rusted doors with the rusted keys." The physical task of moving the 15,500,000 foreign civilians and war prisoners out of Germany would have to await peace and some kind of order. In Sweden, Switzerland and elsewhere, thousands of earlier refugees awaited repatriation. But sooner or later they would get back; sooner or later political Europe would feel their impact...
...Release of factories to produce nearly a third more goods for civilians within nine months, or sooner. (During this period enough metals would be released to begin the making of many an item Americans have not had in a long time, including automobiles...
...might be worn down by the strain of war, as Russia and Britain surely were. They might be drawn fiddlestring tight between two wars over vast distances-as the U.S. was. But they were on the offensive. And the longer they could drive themselves to stay on it, the sooner they could write the end of World...
This "Advice to W. L. White and other Vanishing Americans" appeared in the Saturday Review of Literature. Its author was Ward Greene, executive editor of Hearst's King Features and understandably sympathetic with Bill White's plight last week. For no sooner had White's new book (Report on the Russians; TIME, March 19) popped down on bookstands than angry denunciations began popping down on the author. From the fury of the criticism, White might have been Joseph Goebbels instead of a veteran newsman, with his late father William Allen White's talent for making homespun...
...Texas Too. In San Antonio, Texans asked if the curfew applied in Texas too, and many added: "If it does, we'll just have to start getting drunk an hour sooner next Saturday." The only ordinary citizens who would really be inconvenienced were swing-shift workers. Many of them thought their lives were uncomfortable enough anyhow; there is something chronically annoying about working from 4 in the afternoon until midnight...