Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner was the indictment out than the oil companies stepped up, one by one, to deny the charges. To many companies, in fact, the indictment came as a double blow. They pointed out that when everyone was crying for oil during Suez, the industry was actually forced to boost the prices it paid well operators before they would increase production. Then, when production was roaring along, the bottom dropped out of the market leaving the industry holding a heavy surplus of oil that it has been trying to get rid of ever since...
What about Labor? No sooner had Knowland declared last fall than he spelled out plank No. 1, a right-to-work law. Other major Republicans, e.g., Goodie Knight, oppose right to work, as do the Democrats. Labor unions have urged their memberships to vote Knowland down. Will he be buoyed or buried by his stand...
...will implement our union slowly but surely in order to avoid mistakes," rasped the old soldier in a radio broadcast to the Federation's 8,000,000 citizens. Though he did not say so, the mistake Nuri Pasha meant most to avoid was precipitating a showdown any sooner than necessary in the inevitable struggle for Middle East supremacy between the new Federation and Nasser's dynamic United Arab Republic, which has four times as many citizens but no oil wealth...
...Suez showdown drove silver-haired President Camille Chamoun, 57, a Maronite Roman Catholic, as Lebanon Presidents must traditionally be,* to align Lebanon with the West, and later to accept the Eisenhower Doctrine. No sooner had he done so than Nasser flew into nearby Damascus to merge Syria into his new United Arab Republic and fire the hearts of Lebanese Moslems to join in the same sort of positive neutrality. Moslem opposition leaders were alarmed at the way President Chamoun, who won a three-quarters majority in last year's parliamentary elections, now proposed to alter the constitution so that...
Looking as if wedded bliss was everything he asked of it, hopeful Crooner Dennis Crosby, 23, son of Old Groaner Bing, avoided the obvious to gaze into the eyes of his Showgirl Bride Pat Sheehan, 26. No sooner had the junior Crosbys taken their vows in Las Vegas, Nev., where Pat, a divorcee, hoofs in a nightclub, than word leaked out in Los Angeles that sometime Telephone Operator Marilyn Scott, 25, as the result of a little unwedded bliss with Dennis, was the mother of a 5½-month-old daughter, whose support has been provided by the Crosby lawyers...