Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sooner than radio listeners became of him. As he had done a year ago with Derby Winner Ponder, gravel-voiced Radio Caller Clem McCarthy overlooked Middleground's stretch rush, barely got him under the wire...
Like Ahab tracking Moby Dick, tireless Ben spent the summer and fall following his grizzly over New Mexico and Colorado. Faithfully he sent back his dispatches to the hunting party: "We will get him sooner or later-just as it suits you." Ben kept on the trail till the grizzly hibernated, though once he complained, "My gun froze on the route. I didn't have a mouthful of meat for ten days...
...accepting the trophy, Rockwell said, "I never enjoyed playing as much for a coach as I did this year for Norm Shepard. I only wish he could have come to Harvard sooner...
...Days of Sick Leave. Hermann Kastner heard from Ralph sooner than he had expected. That night Ralph, broadcasting over the U.S. radio station in Berlin, told Hermann a few of the things he had not got around to on the telephone: "What do you say to the starvation rations in the Soviet zone? How can you reconcile it with your conscience that tens of thousands of innocent people . . . are kept in prison and tortured to death . . . I suppose I could have told you all this in Dresden, but then your wife, Trude, what with her excellent connections with the Soviet...
...freshman race had been over one stroke sooner, the Engineers would have won by four feet; if it had gone one stroke farther the Crimson would have won by the same margin. As it was, the two crews crossed the line bow to bow. M.I.T. held a slight lead through most of the race, but Harvard stroke Pete Bullard upped the count from 32 to 40 to bring his boat into a fast, smooth finish. The time...