Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kishi the kuromaku is beginning to show signs of restlessness. Kishi considers himself a leader of the younger conservatives (he is 59), and believes that they "sooner or later" must take over from the old conservatives. The cast is beginning to suspect that the sceneshifter has been struck with a sudden yearning to play the lead himself...
...sooner had President Eisenhower moved into his Gettysburg farm last week, than enterprising photographers, training long lenses from perches as far away as one-eighth of a mile, got pictures that seemed to put the viewer right into Ike's backyard. Next day Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty asked photographers to stop it. "It is vitally important to the welfare and to the health of the President," said Hagerty. "that he be allowed to walk around that farm without having or being conscious of telescopic lenses on him at all times...
...Most certainly yes," was the reply, accompanied by a scorching glance. No sooner had he placed his head reverently upon his chest, however, than everyone sat down. The lone standee murmured, "Who's calling signals at this game...
...right, I'll have pudding." She was very cute. No sooner had Vag begun the pudding (which both looked and tasted like ice-cream) than everyone else stood up. Undaunted, he continued to eat. The hostess whispered to him urgently, "The house mother's table is leaving...
...certain amount of regimentation." She praised Communist China ("The whole nation throbs with activity toward a single end-even infants are taught the benefits of collective life") and the example of Russia ("In Russia the party has impressed on people what it's doing for them. The sooner we do it, the better for us"). She seems to be considerably to the left of her father, who sometimes is capable of a searing skepticism about the Communist wonderlands...