Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leave," Clark remembers someone saying, "but we'll make it so unpleasant for you around here that you'll leave of your own accord after two or three weeks.'' Then, as Clark drove off, an Aggie band struck up the Oklahoma fight song, Boomer Sooner...
...sooner had the A.P.M.E. announced the list than the Chicago Tribune came out with its own candidates. "We are glad to join in sneering," said the Trib, "but, from long association with the 'sports fraternity' (no mean cliche itself), we feel that the eminent editors have overlooked a few terms that yield to none in setting the teeth to grinding . . . The use of 'bobble' for error has a high rasping content, while 'Senior Circuit' for American-or is it National?-League has a suggestion of pomposity, like an overstuffed clubman in an overstuffed chair...
Gambler Frank Costello, 62, was sprung from the federal pen in Milan, Mich., after serving 14½ months of his 18-month sentence for contempt of Congress. Although Costello got time cut off his stretch for good behavior, he was no sooner out of the prison gate than he was in trouble again. Pursued by a carload of persistent newsmen, he ordered his chauffeur to step on the gas. sent his black Cadillac hurtling along the 45 miles to Detroit at 80 m.p.h. (Michigan speed limit: "Reasonable and proper"). Twice overtaken by the reporters, Frank croaked peevishly: "Will you fellows...
...does not follow that American institutions are perfect, that Americans are invariably well behaved, or that the American way of life is flawless. It only means that in one of the most terrible conflicts in human history, I have chosen my side, as all will have to choose sooner or later, and propose to stick by the side I have chosen through thick & thin, hoping to have sufficient courage hot to lose heart, sufficient sense not to allow myself to be confused or deflected from this purpose, and sufficient faith in the civilization to which I belong...
Post office officials expect to shift quarters after the first of the year. Construction should be finished about Dec. 31, and possibly sooner, Poorvu said yesterday...