Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loaded down with strong opinions after his fleeting (18-day) guided tour of Communist China, ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee came back home last week and promptly let the strongest of them fall on the public ear. "The sooner we get rid of Chiang Kai-shek and his troops, the better it will be," said the 71-year-old Labor Party chieftain, who hopes soon again to govern Britain...
...second half, the Sooners really got hot. Stubby Don Brown (5 ft. 9 in., 183 Ibs.) barreled out of his left-tackle position and recovered a California fumble. From his own 13-yard line, lean Gene Calame took off in the option play. Circling behind the quarterback. Halfback Buddy Leake caught Calame's lateral without hitching his stride, raced a couple of steps and whipped a long forward pass downfield. On the Sooner 43, End Max Boydston took the ball easily over his shoulder. A diving defensive back just missed his heels. Running as if he had eyes...
...huge red-and-gold concert hall of Paris' Palais de Chaillot last week, the International Cooperative Alliance, central body of the world's cooperative societies, opened its 19th congress. No sooner did the meeting get under way than lean, dark-haired Andrei Timofeev, leader of the 30-member Soviet delegation, jumped to his feet and put in motion a Russian plan aimed at seizing control of the world cooperative organization...
...chance to get rich quick selling pots in the city at war-inflated prices. The trip to the city, through a countryside full of marauding soldiery, is insanely dangerous. Halfway, the potter sends his wife and son back home alone. In town the pottery sells merrily, but no sooner is the money in hand than the potter begins to dream of luxury...
...Midnight Patient, by Egon Hostovsky (Appleton-Century-Crofts; $3), is a spy thriller about a psychiatrist who gets involved in a plot to blow up New York City. Blowing up New York, of course, is an idea that comes to everybody in the big city sooner or later, but Author Hostovsky has worked off his urge with uncommon ingenuity. The analyst is asked by a U.S. secret agent to examine another agent who has suddenly lost his nerve on the eve of his biggest assignment. For $20,000 the doctor agrees to treat the man every midnight. All at once...