Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years ago, after her husband became governor of Oklahoma, Mrs. Johnston Murray complained that her swollen right hand was nearly paralyzed from shaking hands with more than 100,000 persons along the campaign trail. But that was nothing to faze red-haired Willie (Roberta) Murray. No sooner was she well settled in the governor's mansion than she started holding weekly open houses, standing at the front door and clicking off (on a counter concealed in her left hand) the assorted Indians, oil drillers and schoolmarms who trooped past. By last count. Willie's tabulation had passed...
...suspensions as a result of the McCarthy investigation?" Said Stevens: "My answer to that would have to be no. Then I have to say 'but'-I think it is probably true that as a result of this committee's activities some of those suspensions took effect sooner than they otherwise would have." The exchange continued, rapid-fire...
...Waltz (by Jerome Chodorov & Joseph Fields) tells of a couple (Kitty Carlisle & Macdonald Carey) who are celebrating their 15th wedding anniversary. The husband gets high enough to inform his in-laws that it is really a 16th anniversary-there was a year of unholy wedlock at the outset. No sooner are the wife's parents quieted down than the couple's teen-age kids start acting...
...sooner had The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard returned from a tour of U.S. aircraft plants than his wife, Queen Juliana, ignoring criticism of the Prince's risky flying exploits in America (the engine of one of his planes conked out; another crashed a week after he flew it, killing his recent copilot), promoted Bernhard in all of her armed forces. Tripling in brass, the Prince is now a lieutenant admiral in the Royal Netherlands Navy, a general in the Royal Army, a general in the Royal Air Force...
Wherever she elects to work, the average nurse trained in Houston will stick at it for only 15 years. After 40, most will do only private-duty nursing. The chances are seven out of ten that she will get married and sooner or later quit work to mind her children. In Harris County (which includes Houston), only 109 nurses graduated in 1952. While some moved out of town, seven more moved in. But the county lost 111 by retirement, for a net gain of only five, while the number of hospital beds soared from around...