Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooner had Leopold Stokowski patched up his squabble with the musicians and music lovers of Mexico City (TIME, June 5) than the National Broadcasting Company announced last week that it had fired him from his job as part-time conductor of the NBC Symphony. Behind the blow that knocked British-born, Irish-Pole Stokowski over Radio City's ropes was the fine Italian fist of his onetime pal, spry, bantamweight Arturo Toscanini, 77. The blow was the culmination of a friendship that has gone sour. Few maestros have held each other in such avowed mutual respect as did Toscanini...
...only gone a mile or two when the captain called us and told us we were to take Bizerte and hold it until the infantry moved in. My heart jumped right out I think. ... I had no sooner gotten started down the street when machine-gun fire started flying around and then we could see across the channel up on a hill behind it, gun flashes. So I stopped right in the middle of the street and started shelling the gun positions. By this time they were giving it to us hot and heavy, but we were giving plenty back...
...about 1520 people will be aboard Don Brown's hay-carriers as they head for Norumbega. The trip, Braz Pryor claims, will be inspiring because of its patriotic flavor--no gasoline, no rubber, no canned goods--and if Cowie has its way, no horses. Oh well, I'd sooner oat 'em than ride 'em. All itinerary of the route--both to the Park and to the wagons will be available upon request. Please see Brother Jaffa. The first hayburner will start on the historic journey at 5 o'clock sharp. In case of precipitation all cash will be refunded...
...council of all the United Nations: isolationism, in its earlier form, he said, is dead. But the longer a genuine, effective internationalism is put off, the more U.S. citizens will believe that a Big Four military alliance is the only hope for security. All such military alliances, he warned, sooner or later disintegrate into a grapple and grab among allies. Already responsible U.S. Government officials are talking imperialistically about keeping the bases the U.S. has leased from Britain or won by force of arms in the Pacific and Africa. The future Welles sees for the U.S., if a United Nations...
...Revolutionary elements have not yet reached the point of thorough organization. They do not yet have the leadership they need, but sooner or later they will find both leadership and unity. The best-organized group moving toward revolution is the Communist. However, it is comparatively small...