Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sirens, fireworks and lusty British cheers was a considered tribute. In spite of the heavy rain, a squadron of Spitfires repeatedly swooped low in salute. Only as the Amethyst neared her Royal Navy berth did it become plain that she was a shelled cripple. No sooner was she tied up than her whole crew was relieved, to become the week-long guests of the Fleet Club. From England, King George personally ordered an extra round of grog for all hands with the time-honored phrase: "Splice the main brace...
...breakdown. By this year, his successor had been picked: ex-Braves Rightfielder Tommy Holmes, 34, who was under training as manager of the Braves' Hartford (Conn.) farm club. When Billy Southworth, at 58, finally retired for good, Holmes was ready to step in. Said he: "It just happened sooner than I thought it would...
...Days. In Blytheville, Ark., the city council decided to crack down on unlicensed dogs, hired a dogcatcher, who could not work until a pound was built, erected a portable pound without having a location for it, no sooner parked the pound behind the City Hall than the dog-catcher quit, hired a new dogcatcher who snagged five dogs which could not be tagged because the city clerk ran out of licenses...
Since admen are as follow-the-leader on TV as they have always been in radio, many other TV commercials are likely to assume a musical comedy format. But, sooner or later, something different will come along. As one ecstatic adman put it, with unconscious irony: "Why, we haven't even scratched the surface of what we can do to please the public...
...carries on, mentally at least, when her brain is transferred to a metal figure. But the best of the stories show signs of serious effort to keep fantasy within hailing distance of reality. SF cultists of the old guard may deplore the trend-on the ground that it threatens, sooner or later, to take all the amazement out of the amazing. But it will be all right with most book publishers. Though the space-opera formula seems to work well at the pulp level, experimenting publishers have generally had to be content with sales of around 5,000 when such...