Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Relieved to be out of Communist China at any cost, the three are reconciled to future trials. Said Cowart, with a political education born of bitter experience: "I would sooner have Hitler come back than have Communism. Hitler only destroyed the body, but Communism destroys the mind. The society of China is built on fear-fear of each man for the other...
...spent most of his time helping to break tank-production bottlenecks at Detroit's automotive center, came out in 1945 as a colonel with the Legion of Merit. In 1946, when his brother died of cancer, Gussie stepped into the president's job. But no sooner was he in command than Busch found himself and his company in deep trouble...
...great dramatist himself supplies a wealth of clues . . . When the true author is known, the meaning of the plays is enhanced and their vitality surpasses anything yet devised by the mind or pen of man. The author, Edward de Vere [Earl of Oxford], was determined that his truth would sooner or later be known-" 'Gainst death and all oblivious enmity . . ." DOROTHY AND CHARLTON OGBURN New York City
...shows have a way of going in two directions at once-up and down. They push themselves up in popularity by dishing out the kind of entertainment the customers have been led to expect, and then dig themselves into a rut by shoveling out scheduled helpings of the predictable. Sooner or later the customers get the idea, and suddenly a very popular TV show starts going in one direction only. "What we need," say the TV brass-hats, "is something different-but not too different." Last week they offered viewers something tried, something true, something different and even something...
...loyalist Democrats and got a respectful hearing from some Shivers Democrats who showed up at his rallies. Confidently, he predicted Governor Shivers' eventual return to party councils. Instead of wooing him and his conservative supporters, however, Chairman Butler had hard words for registered Democrats who voted Republican. "The sooner [they] become Republicans, the better off we all will be," he said. "In Texas today, a two-party system is beginning to emerge, and the readjustment and the realignment are proving painful...