Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sooner or later, of course, even the new warehouse will be overflowing with odds and ends. Smithsonian officials say that they are trying to cut back on the number of items added each year (now anywhere between 1 million and 3 million), but the institution's grand acquisitors are hard to restrain...
...sooner had he set forth on his quick trip to Europe and the Middle East last week than U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig tipped his hand. During his first stopover, in Geneva, he told the world that he would tell Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the "outrage" felt by the U.S. over the Soviet-backed crackdown in Poland. The poker-faced Gromyko, who in his time has dealt with eight American Secretaries of State, responded that he had "absolutely no intention" of discussing Poland. The meeting promised, as Haig then observed, to be a "very short...
...everyone alive today, but also of the next generations, however many until the sun explodes, and with them any human hope. That very horror--of a world left devoid of capitalists, communists or anything Only--may buy as some time to work out the problems on this earth. Sooner or later that time will run out, and accident or insanity or Just some badly charted cost--benefit curve wills launch Armageddon. If we don't solve the world, as one else many get the chance...
...These INF talks must be dealt with outside the context of more normal East-West relationships, because there are fundamental advantages to the U.S. in continuation." One advantage is entirely practical: the Soviets install an additional SS-20 missile every five days, according to the State Department; the sooner a limitation pact is in effect, the smaller will be the ballistic threat looming over Europe...
...teaching against suicide. Lidiya joined her three days later. When Historian Kent Hill of Seattle Pacific University flew to Moscow, Lidiya told him, "Here I am with no end in sight. I can't bear it. If I can't have a normal life, I'd sooner...