Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town to race in the Gran Premio de Cuba, Fangio was himself the prize of no ordinary kidnapers. His captors rushed to tell the world who they were, as they launched a week of revolutionary sabotage right in President Fulgencio Batista's front yard (see HEMISPHERE). No sooner had they hidden the racing ace than they were bragging to the newspapers: If President Batista wanted to hustle up the tourist trade with a big sports-car race next day, he would do it without Argentina's defending champion...
...legalized Fair Trade laws. In Fair Trade states, manufacturers, exempted by the McGuire Act from antitrust prosecution, were permitted to fix minimum prices for an entire state so long as they signed a contract with one dealer; all others were bound, whether they signed or not. Yet no sooner were the laws on the books than retailers started breaking them, cut prices far below company minimums. In five years G.E. alone spent almost $5,000,000 tracking down violators, brought suit against more than 3,000 price cutters. Yet the pressure against Fair Trade grew so strong that by last...
Cinemactress Maria (The Brothers Karamazov) Schell, arriving in Manhattan to promote her new movie, exuded a heady mixture of fluff and philosophy. A first-rate actress on screen and off, Maria, 32. parried most of the newsmen's thrusts with ease, sooner or later got her listeners into her own frame of reference. Her greatest vice at the moment, by her own confession: "Intensity." The cure she seeks: "Harmony. I want to find peace within myself and the world in which I live. I want to grow, not by design, but as the flower grows. Peace is art. Peace...
...much as 20 hours late. Each delay produced a paralyzing chain reaction. The day after the storm, a collision between two empty trains on the New Haven near Port Chester, N.Y. held up 15 following trains, packed with 3,000 commuters, for as much as eight hours. No sooner was that mess cleared up than two more derailments on successive days snarled the New Haven all over again. In jampacked stations along the coast, schedules and timetables became meaningless. Only a few trains held to the luxury of dining cars-and these soon ran out of everything, including water...
...returned to Yale as chaplain in 1932 after serving as minister in two Congregational churches in Boston, religion was not exactly in vogue on the U.S. campus. That year Yale offered only one religion course to its undergraduates, and only three students bothered to enroll. Lovett no sooner took over the course than its fame began to spread. He allowed his students to smoke and sip Cokes in class, insisted on only one rule: "If you must sleep, do it in a dignified position." But in spite of such informality, "Cokes and Smokes" proved to hundreds of students that...