Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Model Cities staff has thrown itself into a seemingly unresolvable dilemma. The harder they work, the sooner they die. Perhaps a sudden flare-up is preferable to a lingering death, but some residents disagree, and the staff itself is divided. The Model Cities agency can do a lot of good things in Cambridge, but when it becomes so enmeshed in politics...
Besides being one of the few spots in Fairbanks where you can camp for free with access to drinking water (Fairbanks' Chena River is a convenient sewer), the municipal picnic area draws, sooner or later, a lot of Fairbanks' citizens...
...sooner had the American people again asserted their shrewd political sophistication at the polls [Nov. 16] than the forces of party politics, still unconvinced, sought to deceive and insult the very voters who had, over the past months, been forced to sift through the reckless rhetoric and shallow nonissues of one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history to find even the faintest trace of substance and meaning...
Events usually outrace laws, but sooner or later the courts try to catch up with ever-changing realities. Last week the Supreme Court recognized some facts of modern life and adjusted the law accordingly...
...were to retile the thing Sword's Play, however, you could just about sum up the evening's essential appeal. Sooner or later some learned anthropologist is bound to discover that sword play-whether it be little kids thrashing it out with crossed sticks or European masters fencing for a winning point-is a primitive kind of drama. What with its ritual, conflict, spectacle, and resolution, how could it be anything else? The Three Musketeers is full of such clashes of steel, and William Taylor appears to have done a fine job in teaching a couple of dozen...