Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First there is balding ex-Education Minister Reneé Billèeres, saying, "Sooner another than me." Then comes 36-year-old Maurice Faure ("I am too young"), then cod-eyed Senator Jean Berthoin, conscious of the desperation that led Coty for the first time to call on a Senator. Berthoin insists: "It must be a Deputy." Finally, half an hour before midnight, Popular Republican Pierre Pflimlin, a thin, silvery and incisive Alsatian reluctantly agrees to try and become Premier of France...
...months had Calcutta's drowsy Government Book Depot, which handles the dreariest of official publications, experienced such a brisk burst of activity. No sooner had the first 500 copies of the central government's Act to Suppress Immoral Traffic arrived than a flood of customers snapped them up. The act, designed to outlaw brothels and subject pimps to severe punishments, was passed in 1956; but Parliament delayed enforcement so that India's prostitutes could find other ways to make a living and state governments would have time (though few bothered) to build "rehabilitation homes." Last week, just...
...there beyond the aurora and behind the moon, spins something referred to as the universe. Although Ursa Major and Mars are a long way from earth, a rocket will probably reach the moon some time this year. The moon and what spins beyond it would be reached considerably sooner if this nation's attempts to conquer space were better organized and better financed...
...Administration measure extended unemployment compensation payments 50% beyond state limits (which now range from 16 to 30 weeks, depending on state laws), with the Federal Government lending the money to the states. But no sooner had the proposal reached Capitol Hill than House Ways & Means Committee Democrats came up with a far more lavish plan. The committee approved (16-9) a bill providing a flat 16 extra weeks' compensation (TIME, April 28), airily ruling out repayment by the states. The Democrats boosted the bill's cost about three-quarters of a billion dollars by the 16-week ruling...
Munro seems to be running on a treadmill as far as injuries are concerned. No sooner had defenseman John Baldwin and midfielder Jerry Cotter returned to the lineup than first midfield stalwart Dick Parks suffered a broken toe and spiked shin, and defenseman Lanny Keyes was sidelined with a pulled hamstring muscle...