Word: sooner
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...major sport in 1956, and tennis and squash were elevated last fall. Noting that this indicates a consistent trend, Junta stated that Yale has raised nearly every sport to the major sport level. Harvard promotes the sports only as they become deserving, he said. Junta predicted that "Sooner or later almost every sport will become a major sport...
...secret-police procedures is made amenable to suggestion and is simply not the same character as when rested. Moreover, his normal personality is no help to him during prolonged sleeplessness; in fact, the Army medics found that, paradoxically, the men who were usually the most stable emotionally cracked sooner than their more neurotic buddies when deprived of sleep...
...racked up by a 70-year-old Pennsylvanian); the median is twelve (ten daytime, two at night). A majority of the polled physicians reported that they try to talk their patients into visiting the office because facilities for examination are better there, and the patient can usually be seen sooner...
...legislative leaders last fortnight the President sat fuming while Congressmen asked sharp questions-and got limp answers from Pentagon officials-about interservice rivalries, overlapping missile programs and the whole organizational foul-up that makes it almost impossible to trace responsibility for any kind of failure in U.S. defense. No sooner had the congressional leaders left the White House than President Eisenhower called Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, into his office. His orders: find the right answers to the Pentagon's problems and put them into effect. Said the President: "You have a free hand...
Greek Cypriots still refuse to recognize any spokesman except Makarios, and most well informed Britons concede privately that his return sooner or later is inevitable. A solution Britain would consider: independence for Cyprus, retention of NATO bases on the island, but no merger with Greece. One of the biggest sticking points is Turkey's increasingly stubborn insistence on partition or the status quo as the only ways to safeguard Cyprus' outnumbered Turkish community. But if good will and determination could find a way, Sir Hugh Foot seemed the man to find...