Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan, said General Omar Bradley, "provides a system that would require nearly every man to serve in our forces, first on full-time active duty, later as a member of a National Guard or reserve organization for a period of years. This is the cold and unalterable fact. The sooner we face it, the better chance we will have for survival...
...were declared 1951 co-winners. One was a coldhearted ditty called For Your Information ("For your information, there's someone else in your place"). The second, fretting over the city's perennial water shortage, was called I Hope It Rains Three Days in a Row. No sooner were the winners announced than it rained three days in a row. Now all that Rio asked was clear skies-and perhaps a word from the velhinho that he would legalize gambling-and it would be a carnaval which no one could forget...
...used to treat polio victims. But more than $13 million has been parceled out to research groups to track down and stamp out an elusive killer. So far the dimes have done neither, but they have moved closer & closer by helping to uncover a mass of evidence that will sooner or later trap the killer...
...Sooner or later, movies with children in the title roles come to a point where neither the child nor his supporting adults can look at one another without becoming highly emotional. Those who like these eye-wetting denouements will find. "The Mudlark" both heartwarming and soul-satisfying; others should leave five minutes before the end of the film...
Fifth and most refined we have the room-mate expert or phony reference ploy. Almost everybody sooner or later comes to a point in an examination where he ought to cite a reference. Of course, if he comes upon the rare occasion where he knows the name of a book, then all is fine. He just states the reference thusly "As Professor Banana says on page 207 of his work, 'The Dynamics of Idiocy.'" It really doesn't make any difference whether the page number is right--the grader certainly won't look it up. As a matter of fact...