Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time when family quarrels are forgotten," said Carter in his welcoming speech. Suddenly, a woman standing among reporters about 20 ft. from the podium began waving a copy of Mao Tse-tung's Little Red Book and screaming, "Teng is a murderer!" No sooner had U.S. Secret Service men dragged her away than a man perched on a platform erected for TV cameras shouted a paraphrase of one of Mao's sayings: "You cannot make this a garden party! You cannot stop the revolution!" Secret Service men carted him away too. Both were reporters for a Maoist press...
Marciano said that workmen would try to solve the problem tonight. "We'd work on it sooner, but we have to have access to the dining hall, which we don't have while students are using the facilities," he said...
...vague law, and pass [the hard decisions] off on the courts." A phenomenally litigious society also fuels judicial power; judges, after all, cannot make law without lawsuits. Tocqueville observed more than a century ago that there is "hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one." With the growth of Government, the power of the judiciary has naturally expanded. Thus public-interest groups that cannot sway legislatures will not hesitate to run off to the courts to get their "rights" upheld. Judges are often more likely to extend a sympathetic...
...great weariness. His need for relaxation might oblige him to seek it outside Iran, he said. It was the first time the Shah had publicly conceded he might be ready to step down, if only for a time. Indeed, the Shah's fate seemed inevitable and imminent: sooner rather than later, he would slip away, carrying with him the elusive hope that at least his son Crown Prince Reza, now 18, may some day succeed him on the Peacock Throne. As part of the bargain, Bakhtiar will set up and head a Regency Council that will keep Iran...
...Sooner or later, it was bound to happen. Led, as usual, by the offensive firepower of Tania Huber, the women's ice hockey team picked up its first victory of the season--and first ever in the Ivy League--last night by dropping Dartmouth, 5-3, at Rupert Thompson Arena in Hanover...