Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasant job too well to leave it. ... We are acquainted with the girl who quite obviously is just afraid of getting her hands dirty, and the girl who would rather follow her husband around from camp to camp than get in the fight herself and help get him home sooner. We suspect that the truth of it is that they don't really feel any personal responsibility for helping to fight this...
...Mission to Moscow" a supremely unimaginative and literal rendering of the book, should have been relased a year sooner. As it is, we all knew that Russia was fighting the Germans and the wax-museum figures of "Mission to Moscow" lost any interest that they might ever have had. "The North Star" presents the Hollywood horse opera dressed in new costumes. It's still the story of peaceful, happy Red Gulch taken over by bad hombres, and the finish is pure Tom Mix. All this despite the fact that supposedly gutty and loftist Lillian Hollman wrote the script. The problem...
...Britain last year). True, said the Wartime Prices & Trade Board, there are now great surpluses, but they are due largely to a current and presumably temporary lack of ships in which to get meat overseas. Since Britain's needs are still great, Britain will get the surpluses-sooner or later. When Britain's meat needs decline, Canadian rationing will be eased or abandoned. But not until then...
...horses, steam engines and a whirl through training camps, went to France. He arrived in the Toul sector on Jan. 19, 1918, where his outfit relieved some Moroccan soldiers near Beaumont. On a clear day the Americans could see the city of Metz. They said to each other that sooner or later they'd knock the damn place down...
...ASDIC could hear the destroyer coming, coming, and he reported: "Destroyer closing, destroyer closing," and you knew sooner or later it would be over the top. Then you hear the sort of faint splash-splash of the propeller getting faster and faster. This is the most frightening time. You hear this thing going over and you wonder, "Has he dropped it now?" I forget how many depth charges were dropped, 40 or 50. I remember saying to myself: "This is hell, and I am not going to stay in submarines any more. I just can't take...