Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...every man sooner or later discovers, sex is largely a waste of time. Remember what Lord Chesterfield said about it: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable...
...them who saw me had lost a son in Viet Nam and he told me, 'Mr. President, if you'd gone in sooner and captured that ammunition, you might have gotten the bullet that killed my boy.' So don't anyone give me any crap about not seeing hardhats...
Blair's Mutiny. Friedrich joined the Post in 1962, and he was still there when Marty Ackerman ("I'd sooner sell my wife") folded it in 1969. He thinks that the magazine's decline actually began in the '30s and '40s, when top management tried to turn Curtis into a great printing company instead of a great publishing company. But he contends that the Post could have been saved many times during its last few years, and it is the abortive attempts to save it that dominate his book...
...things I cherished in Mailer as a writer−his daring, his unpredictability, his gambling, and his bluffing−were the very things that made me want to strangle him as a politician. It was a revelation that returned my sanity." Flaherty might have got it back a lot sooner had he realized from the start that for someone like Mailer New York is a great place to campaign in, but you wouldn't want to win there...
Roger Hilsman, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs under Kennedy and Johnson, author of To Move a Nation, asserts: "The blunt truth is that the President knows very little that you and I don't know. And even that little extra is going to leak out sooner or later -more often sooner than later...