Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner had the Supreme Court upheld the Smith Act last Monday than Attorney General Mc-Grath and his assistant Irving H. Saypol began crowing over "forthcoming action" and the "sad day for conspirators." But before letting loose the hounds, federal and state enforcement agencies would do well to read over the concurring reports of Justices Jackson and Frankfurter and the dissents of Justices Black and Douglas...
...East in February. Bill McCord owned his own printing and binding plant outside Los Angeles. Lieut. Marovish was a prosperous insurance broker. He had bought a new home a few weeks before being recalled. The business was going down every day and he was worried sick. Sooner or later he feared he'd lose that house. Their skipper back at the base was Lieut. Commander Ray Nittinger, Lieut. Marovish's insurance partner. It isn't easy for men like these to swallow this sort of thing without gagging slightly...
Goodbye, My Fancy (Warner], a slick adaptation of the 1948 Broadway hit comedy, gives Joan Crawford a chance to preen her plumage and practice her intellect as a glamorous Congresswoman who would sooner compromise a man than an issue...
Yale men may have to clean their own rooms and make their own beds next year, and perhaps sooner, if the university in New Haven executes a plan announced Saturday that would dismiss 70 maids before fall...
...entertaining, but not too entertaining to obscure the fact that perhaps the only things Shaw consistently believed in were himself and that lean deity, Creative Evolution, a sort of mixture of Lilith and Mrs. Sidney Webb. Apart from that he never made a joke which he did not sooner or later pass off as truth, and never stated a truth that he did not eventually turn into a joke...