Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Olsen & Johnson appeared in pink silk panties and cutaways, a couple down front began undressing. No sooner were they tossed out of the theater than the orchestra leader started to strip...
...sooner did the U.S. press publish the design than a storm of protests blew in on the Navy Department. Like Designer Burnham, the protesters were all Protestants. The state of Washington's Council of Churches found the design "sacrilegious ... an utter mockery of the sacredness of worship. . . . Weapons of war might as well be placed on the altar or pulpit as to allow this horrible creation ... to desecrate the sanctuary of worship." The influential Christian Century found it "rather shocking to see that symbol of gentleness and grace" holding a warship, but was thankful that "the figure of Christ...
...most important thing you can do when he returns is to treat him as naturally as you can. He does not want pity and sentimentality. He wants to do things for himself and the sooner he does these the more nearly normal you will all be. . . . Greet him as if nothing had happened...
...picture. Then he refused to sign the currency of any sovereign nation. Finally he wrote his name on a plain slip of paper. Budenny and the American drank a toast. "May the next one be in Berlin," said the American. Bowing low, Budenny hoped the next would be much sooner than that...
...likelihood last week the main units of Japan's fleet were based along the Jap lifeline which stretches from the homeland to The Netherlands East Indies, a line which passes through Palau and Yap, strong bases 470 and 750 miles off the coast of the Philippines. Sooner or later the U.S. would be in a position to strike at that line. It is there that the Jap fleet may make its last-ditch defense, when the U.S. fleet is 4,000 miles from Pearl Harbor...