Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...airlines should arm all passengers as they board the aircraft. This way a hijacker could be conveniently shot by the nearest passenger when he attempted to commandeer the aircraft. At first, perhaps, a few innocent victims would be shot and we might lose an airplane or two, but sooner or later the message would get across that aerial hijacking is no longer a desirable or profitable thing...
...sooner had Intrepid nosed out Australia's Gretel 11 in the fifth and deciding America's Cup race last week than the spectator boat America, a replica of the schooner that first won the cup in 1851, hoisted the signal flags for Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum-which was to be proved). A more fitting postscript would have been V.Q.P., for vincit qui patitur-he that can endure overcometh. In defeating Gretel II by 4-1 in the best-of-seven series, Intrepid had endured the longest (14 days) and strongest challenge in decades...
...Sooner or later they will come to their senses...
...Okun paper concentrates its arguments around the theme that whatever the game plan has achieved has come much too late, with much too high a cost in production, jobs, income and investment in future growth. These economists contend that presidential guidelines on wage-price increases would have achieved success sooner and that, in order to revive the economy, the Government can afford now to spend more and expand the money supply even faster. Nixon men retort that both the braking of inflation and the economic revival could only be accomplished gradually. As Election Day nears, voters will hear more such...
Officially the U.S. still views the colonels with mild distaste and exerts gentle pressure on them to return to some semblance of democracy. But the Greek regime now seems certain to get those tanks sooner or later-and probably sooner. A team of U.S. civilian and military advisers headed by G. Warren Nutter, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, flew into Athens last week for two days of talks with Papadopoulos and other officials. Nutter, who is the highest-ranking U.S. emissary to visit Greece since the 1967 soup, was mainly interested in Greece's posture...