Word: begin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the bitter question was still undecided. It threatened the unity of the Greek Cabinet, where dissension arose over Premier Nicholas Plastiras' insistence that the hostages must be freed before discussions on permanent peace could begin. The unity of EAM was also threatened. The ELD (Union of Popular Democracy), second most powerful party in the EAM coalition, announced that it was breaking away, would confer independently with British Ambassador Reginald Leeper. Professor Alexander Svolos, white-haired, respected ex-leader of EAM's Provisional Government during its 18-month existence, called for immediate peace. The Salonika...
...opinion of the Intramural basketball director, Adolph Samborski, this tournament has been "one of the best yet." Samborski plans to begin another such contest soon, and to continue intramural basketball into next term and until outdoor spring athletics begin...
...airfields around San Jose; night after night U.S. ack-ack and Black Widow night fighters took a heavy toll. Day after day U.S. bombers roared over enemy-occupied bases on Luzon, destroying 144 planes in three days. It was an aerial war of attrition, before the next push could begin...
Enrico Caruso Jr., 39, sometime playboy, onetime cinema bit-player, vocalist, who resembles his late, great tenor father in name only, announced that he would begin singing for his supper soon in Buffalo and Detroit nightclubs...
...False Armistice. The issue was simple: had the time come for the U.S. to begin to reconvert to peace? Eyeing the mammoth stockpiles for war and the progress of the Allied armies across France, WPBoss Nelson thought it had. Charlie Wilson did not think so. Reconversion won. And Charlie Wilson tacitly admitted that perhaps Don Nelson had been right. For he promptly reconverted himself back to General Electric, remarked that G.E.'s reconversion was "one hell...