Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sooner was the statue in place than vandalism began. On November 15, 1884, just a month later. The Crimson reported that "some one disfigured the Chapel and the statue by painting in large letters on them the class name of '87." The account continues, "We know that it is a human failing to encourage anything, however silly, that is done in defiance of authority; but Harvard men have hitherto been free from this failing in its extreme form. This last performance, however, equals the best feats of silliness on record...
Most Americans have sooner or later encountered an image of the geisha. She is dressed in a traditional kimono, dark hair piled into a stylized coiffure and face painted ivory white. Despite the familiarity of the symbol most Americans are either unknowledgeable about what a geisha is or believe her to be a prostitute...
...Politburo's youngest member, Mikhail Gorbachev, went on to laud Chernenko as "a tested leader of the Leninist type" and a man of "outstanding political and organizational abilities and immense life experience." The delegates hardly needed the glowing accolades to be persuaded of Chernenko's virtues. No sooner had Gorbachev finished his brief nominating speech than all hands in the vaulted chamber shot up in unanimous approval of his proposal that Chernenko be elected President...
Musselman said neither the blister nor the 8 2/3 innings of work would hinder his pitching in the first game of Harvard's twinbill with Princeton Sunday. "It was just a little blister," he said. "I knew it was going to break sooner or later...
...yearning he sees in hundreds of anonymous faces every day. "Those people are obviously looking for somebody to believe in, someone they can trust." That palpable emotional investment, Hart says, is awesome, even frightening. No matter who the candidate, he says, the crowds are bound to be disappointed. "Sooner or later, they'll be let down...