Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history. First question: "What might have happened if Robert E. Lee had accepted Lincoln's offer to command the Union Army?" After consultation with Columbia Historian Allan Nevins, veteran Radio-TV Writer Mort Lewis decided that Lee's generalship would have ended the Civil War two years sooner, thus leading to an earlier assassination of Lincoln and Lee's election as President. Other Stroke of Fate teasers: Suppose Montcalm had defeated Wolfe at Quebec, Hamilton had killed Burr in their duel, Hitler had been killed in the Munich beer-hall Putsch? The program's solid grounding...
...would be too much to expect Dr. Jones to be as objective about Freud's beliefs as he is about Freud's personality. To Jones, psychoanalysis is not a theory which may sooner or later be displaced by some other theory; it is an eternal truth which may grow bigger and better but will never be disproved...
Last week Schwab's was getting some lively competition. No sooner had Schwab's announced that three visiting Italian starlets would be guests at its soda fountain for publicity pictures and ice cream than the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel Drugstore retaliated with a bulletin that the Ritz brothers would throw a party for friends at Booth No. 1. "This is the table," a solemn announcement reminded patrons, "where the R.K.O.-Stolkin deal was practically concluded some time...
...sooner did the Brooks tie the score at 5-5 than Yogi Berra vaulted a home run into the right field stands in the bottom of the seventh. The Yanks picked up three more in the eighth, but they were superfluous, for reliever Sain recovered from a shaky seventh inning and went on to gain credit...
...beginning to realize that the Russian thermonuclear bomb demands a whole new range of political and military thinking. The dominant fact percolating through policy discussion in Washington is that the U.S.S.R. will have enough super bombs to menace the U.S. by 1956 or sooner (TIME, Sept. 21). And the thermonuclear blast is so devastating (potentially thousands of times the power of the most up-to-date atomic bomb) that victory after 1956 may go not to the nation with the biggest stockpile of bombs but to the nation that drops them first...