Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...associates? The test of Nelson Rockefeller's long and earnest efforts to win Latin American friendship will be whether or not this Latin worry is deflated at Mexico City. If this fear is not removed, no Western Hemisphere working arrangement will be durable. If the worry is intensified, sooner or later Latin Americans will turn to some other power, perhaps to Britain or Russia, to counterbalance a new U.S. imperialism...
...Mexico saloon where an Eastern drummer was having a drink. When the drummer complained to the bartender that the horses jostled him, the bartender snorted, "What the hell y'u doin' in here afoot, anyhow?" When two friendly riders met on the trail, they stopped and sooner or later swung off their horses, squatted on their bootheels, began scratching in the dirt with broomweed stalks. "A cowhand kin jes' talk better when he's a-scratchin' in the sand like a hen in a dung heap." This was known as cow geography, from the pictures...
...Maybe sooner," said the other, "but I won't mind being a policeman for six months or so if the Army sends me to school part-time...
Meek, enthusiastic, little Samuel James Wanous (rhymes with "on us"), 37, business-administration professor at U.C.L.A., calls himself "just another of those damned bureaucrat professors" and conducts classes under the firm impression that sooner or later one of his students will shy an inkwell at him. Dr. Wanous has good reason to be apprehensive. With his colleague, energetic Dr. William Francis Brown, 33, he lectures on such contentious subjects as the Wagner Act, the Wages and Hours Act, the economic weapons of labor and management, the causes of industrial unrest. His students: management executives and union officials from the Douglas...
Actually, it will be a while before he has to. Not until he is enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral some time after Easter-lack of central heating prevents holding the ceremony sooner-will Geoffrey Fisher take over the job he did not want. By his own admission, he lacks Temple's vision and imagination. He will probably never lead a great spiritual revival in the Church of England, as Temple might have done; nor is he likely to say or do anything to shock or upset his fellow Anglicans, as Temple often did. What he will...