Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: If state laws are in opposition to valid federal laws, they are nullified under the U.S. Constitution, and the sooner the matter is adjudicated, the better for all concerned...
...Wingback Hunter twisted away from his partner with an expression of considerable pain and asked: "What should you say if the girl steps on your foot?" Another student was apparently faced with the same social problem. "Dammit," came his anguished answer from across the floor, "say 'ouch!'" Sooner or later, every man in the class learns for himself. "One day a guy's a woman, the next a man," explains Brock. Just so his students can tell the difference, he has the "women" wear short yellow vests over their manly chests...
...Congress still seemed more interested in the political possibilities of budget-cutting. No sooner had he received the President's letter than Speaker Sam Rayburn renewed his talk about tax cuts. A top Democrat reacted to the message with a sneer: "It don't amount to a sneeze in a cyclone...
...thing, sooner or later the University may run out of distinguished Harvard presidents, at least deceased ones, and it is felt by some that a living man should not be chosen...
...billion pile are phony, e.g., $207 million out of payments to veterans, $76 million out of old-age-assistance grants to states. Federal outlays of this sort are governed by laws, and as long as the laws remain on the books. Congress has no choice but to appropriate, sooner or later, whatever money is needed...