Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waste in domestic spending comes to Congressmen's attention sooner and more surely than waste in foreign spending. ¶ The bill calls for $800 million for "a war that is no longer being waged" in Indo-China, although $450 million worth of equipment is "stacked on the docksides" and another $600 million is already in the Indo-China pipeline. ¶ Long realized that the new money for Indo-China might not be spent there, but be transferred to other areas. Said he: the other areas will have enough money without...
...dozen campuses across the U.S. last week, groups of Air Force officers were gathered to thrash out plans for next year's R.O.T.C. program, and sooner or later most of the groups came to a strange new subject: the ideas and methods of a man named Alex F. Osborn. By profession, Osborn is neither an airman, educator, nor psychologist. Nevertheless, he seems destined to have a hand in the training of the nation's air reserve. For the past two years he has been waging a one-man crusade to get U.S. education to teach creative imagination. Last...
...some of our cleaners-up would stop thinking about sex and take a look at this violent cruel stuff, they might yet do us a service . . . Nine youngsters out of ten will sooner or later discover sex for themselves . . . but this cruel violence is something else. It is by no means an essential part of us. No doubt there is in us the germ of it, a spark of savagery, especially in youth. One of the aims of civilisation is to smother that spark . . . But here in this popular fiction the whole civilised trend is being carefully reversed...
...know now that we have failed to stand our ground when we should stand, and are failing to build our strength while we still may have the time to build it ... God has given us the opportunity to defend [our] way of life through adequate military strength. The sooner we attain that strength, the sooner we can halt the present drift towards a helplessness which can only result in the loss of the free world...
...Britain made the same mistake again? There was talk of going ahead firmly with a Southeast Asia treaty to protect what was left. But no sooner had Eden returned than Churchill summoned the Cabinet. Having "achieved" an Indo-China peace, Churchill was thinking that now was the time, when the Communists were being "reasonable," to repeat the pattern and get a settlement with the Communists on Germany. Molotov, who had planned it that way, promptly helped the move along by his proposal for a new conference on "European security...