Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bench and you're grappling with individual cases, you find it difficult to implement any theory of judicial review...I find it hard for the good judge to pin any sort of label on himself." Should Ely ever don judicial robes, "he'd be tripped up sooner or later by a case that doesn't fit. Ely on the bench would not be Ely in the book...It would be an evil man who would disregard justice and law to follow his own theory," McGowan says...
...sooner had Ed Koch announced that he was going to run for Governor of New York than Playboy magazine hit the stands with an interview as sizzling as any centerfold. The attraction: the New York mayor holding forth on everything from Black Leader Jesse Jackson ("bad news"), his own alleged racism ("b.s."), to cracks about all life outside his city. "Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's wasting your life ... Rural America? This is a joke...
...East had no alternative to the peace process under our aegis. We had built better than we perhaps knew; the greatest tribute Nixon received was the quiescence of the nations of the world while he lay mortally wounded. But it was clear that we were losing control over events. Sooner or later something would get out of hand. The unspoken corollary was that our own constitutional crisis had to be brought to an end if the nation was to avoid catastrophe...
...Hafez Assad, we invariably sat side by side on two easy chairs in an upstairs room of the presidential residence. We both looked left at a painting depicting the conquest of the last Crusader strongholds by Arab armies. The symbolism was plain enough; Assad frequently pointed out that Israel, sooner or later, would suffer the same fate. On this visit, when I presented the Israeli proposal to him, he said: "They are not giving back Quneitra. They have just split Quneitra...
...been maybe a little bit more realistic. I could have been able so play different defenses sooner," Kleinfelder said...