Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hint. To the Swedish ambassador in wartime Moscow, Molotov hinted: "I don't think the Moscow climate agrees with you. I think you ought to ask your government to call you back for a rest-the sooner the better." ¶ The question-mark barrage. After listening to Adolf Hitler grandiloquizing about "spheres of influence," Molotov silenced him by asking all at once: "What's this about a new order in Europe? And in Asia? What role is the U.S.S.R. going to play? What about Bulgaria? Rumania? Turkey? How shall Russian interests be preserved in the Balkans...
...purge in January, he intended a drastic shake-up in the higher echelons, with Lavrenty Beria (whose police were accused of laxity) marked out as one of the first victims. ¶ That Malenkov got wind of Stalin's intentions, and-fearing that such a purge might involve himself sooner or later- made common cause with Beria. ¶ That something historic happened in the Kremlin the night of Feb. 15, two weeks before Stalin's death. Fact: at the bottom of the back page of Izvestia Feb. 17 appears this laconic death notice: "The Office of the Commandant...
...Soviet representatives keep talking about their peace-loving nature . . . but 'what about deeds?' Well, have there not been a few deeds, at least during the last month? . . . Where are yours?" Let us, proposed Vishinsky, "dig the tunnel of friendship from both sides [in order] to meet sooner and halfway...
...Revolution came along, and the West outstripped Russia, and (in the guise of the German army) beat the Czar's armies in World War I. Stalin took up where Peter left off, got Russia sufficiently re-Westernized by 1941 to defeat another Western invader, Nazi Germany. But no sooner had the Germans been cleared from the mother soil than the West shot out ahead again with the atomic bomb. "So today, for the third time, Russia is having to make a forced march to catch up." Any Hope? Not only Russia, but the World's other West-fearing...
...poor athlete is relegated to the ignominous position of playing just for fun. But he relishes in a game with no professionals or league standings, no rules or regulations, and where everyone wins, sooner or later...