Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sooner or later it had to happen. In the third week of Germany's "harassing fire" with winged robot bombs on southern England, one of the missiles hit a nursery home in which 26 tiny war orphans were sleeping. The first body recovered from the welter of wreckage was a dead, dark-haired little boy in a blue bed jacket; the second, a dead, blonde little girl in a pink nightdress...
Physicists have yet to answer the fascinating question of what effect, if any, sound itself has on a plane's speed. Why do shock waves hit a plane at the speed of sound? Why not sooner-or later? The physicists' best guess: sound waves signal ahead to air molecules to get out of the way of a moving object; at supersonic speeds the object outraces the warning, runs smack into groups of unwary molecules...
...going to put on a show. I tried to get Chick Henn, the Toastmaster, to let me render the poem I recited at graduation from good old Tizdale High. Mr. Henn thought that the program was long enough already. He said that if I had spoken to him sooner he would have been glad to use me. Remember, Ma, how I recited it at Uncle Newt's wedding...
...correspondent, Talbot, and me by shouting through the windows of our two houses: "Avioni-airplanes!" Talbot and I, sharing the same room, jumped into our clothes, ran out, took a look at the skies and made for the slit trench on a bare mound some 100 yards away. No sooner had the four of us reached the shelter than bombs from 15 planes began exploding around us. Sizzling bomb fragments whizzed into the trench beside my right shoulder. About 30 more large, low-flying planes arrived and, just as Fowler was filming the dive of a Stuka, brownish parachutes flapped...
...summer's work on dam construction on the Yellowstone River had sold him to a life of harnessing U.S. rivers. "While I was learning to build dams," Crowe reflects, "the nation got started on the biggest dam-building spree of all time. If I'd been born sooner or later, I'd have missed the boat...