Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London Economist was moved to wonder whether the Afrikaners had emerged as the master race, "with the English, the Coloureds, the Indians and the Natives as a descending order of inferior castes." Premier Strijdom, in his victory speech, announced his conviction that South Africa as a "republic is coming sooner than the United Party expects...
...United Auto Workers aggressively presented their new wage demands to Ford and Chrysler last week, Detroit's worried automakers got some sound advice from Harvard University. Said Economist Sumner Slichter: "The auto companies would be wise to maintain a united front that would sooner or later lead to industry-wide bargaining...
With a net loss last year of $1,362,420, Republic has closed all but two of its foreign distribution branches, cut its domestic offices from 36 to 19 ("And the sooner we close all of them, the better"). Yates said that Republic hopes to be completely done with motion-picturemaking by July1, will continue to rent out its studios and sell its film library...
...return was Freddie's acceptance of the status of a constitutional monarch, Britain hoped that he might actually be a help in establishing a democratic government. But 33-year-old King Freddie is a proud man who represents a dynasty that goes back to the 15th century. No sooner was he safely back in his palace in Kampala than he began to show signs of wanting to be every inch the king his ancestors were...
Despite his success on the Brooklyn tundra, Maksik is a chronic worrier who believes that sooner or later his storied "Child's with music and a minimum" is bound to go the way of all the big clubs. "I'm in this business 21 years, and everyone always calls me a success, but how come I'm always borrowing money?" To that, a former associate replies: "Ben ain't in this to look at pretty girls in tights; he don't do nothin' that don't make money." Whatever else...