Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less than an hour before it was delivered. Said the Democratic candidate : "The root of the Korean problem does not lie in Korea-it lies in Moscow. If the purpose of the general's trip is to settle the Korean war by a larger military challenge, then the sooner we all know about it the better...
...wily old financial wizard, got a foothold in Germany again. Turned down by the Hamburg Senate when he applied for permission to found a banking firm there (TIME, Aug. 4). Schacht managed to get a license to operate in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, appeared confident that sooner or later he would win his Hamburg permit...
...sooner had he published the first volume-Men at Arms-of a trilogy (see BOOKS) than Novelist Evelyn Waugh unwittingly gave his fans a hint of the subject matter of Vol. II. A personal advertisement in the London Times announced: "Evelyn Waugh seeks detailed information P.O.W. routine from then junior officer taken prisoner unwounded France, 1940; hospitality, expenses and ?50 ($140) offered to applicant willing to spend two days in near future under interrogation...
Former Queen Narriman, 18, wife of exiled King Farouk of Egypt, had no sooner left him to mind the baby on the Isle of Capri, than reporters began gossiping about a divorce. A Cairo newspaper reported that Narriman's family were trying to find a way for the Queen and her infant son King Fuad II to return to Egypt to give encouragement to the monarchists. In Lausanne, Switzerland, where Narriman had gone with her mother for some medical treatment, the Queen was said to have consulted lawyers about a divorce. At week's end, as Narriman returned...
When Arthur Deutsch, a linotyper in Manhattan's Publishers Printing Co., asked to have his vacation in March so he could visit Europe, the company readily agreed. But no sooner had he landed abroad than he joined a group called the American Committee to Survey Labor Conditions in Europe, traveled with it through Poland and ended up at the Moscow International Economic Conference...