Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pollster George Gallup sent his interviewers out across the U.S. to ask: "Do you think the U.S. and the other Western countries can live . . . peacefully with the Russians-or do you think there is bound to be a major war sooner or later?" Last fortnight Gallup reported the results: 64% believe a major war is likely...
...YORK DAILY NEWS: The Republicans didn't begin to put in their best licks till about three weeks ago, with President Eisenhower having to be prodded to roll up his sleeves. If he had slugged sooner, oftener and harder, his party would have kept and strengthened its control of Congress...
Brown came roaring back, however, by swamping Rhode Island, 35-0. Princeton, undefeated at the time, with its ace Royce Flippin leading the League in every department, was edged by Brown, 21-20 the next week. No sooner had the Bruins gotten high recognition in the East however, than a weak Temple team upset them 19-14. But in its last two efforts, Brown has rebounded with a 34-6 defeat of Lehigh, and a 40-7 rout of Springfield...
...Successes. Sooner or later, all the form charts got fouled up. The prognosticators are learning all over again that the one-platoon game gives every underdog a chance. Colleges that cannot afford to beat the bushes for hordes of burly ballplayers can hold their own if they can sign up a small squad of good men. The limited-substitution rule keeps the football factories from beating them down with sheer manpower. The G.I.'s, dependable veterans who could be counted on for a polished performance every Saturday, are all gone. In their place, some of the best teams...
...girl while Trainor was engrossed in the subtleties of another question. "It don't take an Einstein," he replied, "to figger out that when the workers find out what it's all about, they aren't gonna take it lying down . . . some of them learn slow, but sooner or later there's gonna be a workers' revolution...