Word: begin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon, Angus was holding his own sgeulachlan, and his fame spread through Benbecula. Neighbors began coming from miles around to his stone farmhouse on the moors. There, in the smell of burning peat and freshly woven wool, Angus would begin his tales. And everyone would listen, including his wife, though she had heard all his stories before...
...many a farmer, market days begin at 4 in the morning when the wholesalers show up to buy for other markets. Retailers like the Gauthiers arrive later, and for them business does not get brisk until about 8 o'clock. Thereafter they are seldom without customers, who pinch and punch their fruit and vegetables and ask them to pull open the husks of sweet corn to make sure the kernels are full and firm...
...clock it was clear that Maria was not going to die. Those who had lost their bets-their horses and mules and pieces of land to skeptics and Communists-cursed their luck as they turned away to begin the journey home...
Phase III seems about to begin. The West has come back into close contact with the Russians, but not on the Phase I basis. Now the West's eyes are somewhat open and it is no longer helpless before Russian propaganda attacks. Phase III will call for day-to-day shrewdness and forcefulness on specific issues...
...early jet planes were hurried improvisations (Lockheed wrapped the famed P-80 around a jet engine in 141 frantic days) which did not begin to utilize the new engine's capabilities. Even later airframe designs have not kept up with the fast-growing muscles of the engine. Britain's first turbojet flew successfully in 1941. Designed by Britain's Air Commodore Frank Whittle,* it developed only 850 Ibs. of propulsive thrust. Now engines with 5,000 Ibs. of thrust are available, and soon there will be bruisers with 8,000-10.000 Ibs. No one thinks that even...