Word: begin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that a code of conduct between nations is in itself important. In time, the existence of this code does begin to affect public opinion and public opinion in its turn has an influence upon the behaviour of governments...
...well to have some institution where the countries of both blocs can come together, can get used to talking to each other and to seeing each other, and perhaps begin from that to understand each other...
...rawboned kid was 17 and fresh off a Van Meter, Iowa farm when he gangled out to begin his major-league pitching career against the St. Louis Cardinals' Gas House Gang. First man up in the exhibition game in Cleveland was a scrappy shortstop named Leo Durocher. Robert William Andrew Feller took a couple of warmup tosses, then reared back and fired. Leo heard two strikes whistle past so fast that he could not see the ball, then dropped his bat and headed for the dugout. "Hey," the umpire called, "you've got a strike left...
...some of the facts contradicted the independents' argument. To begin with, the biggest surpluses were in the eastern and midwestern oil districts that export very little oil. District Three, however, including Louisiana and Texas-the biggest exporters-showed a storage drop from 121.3 million bbls. in September to 99.7 million in December. Moreover, since only about a third of total stocks are what is called "readily dispatchable" crude (the rest is filling the pipelines or the bottoms of tanks), the 21.6 million bbl. storage decline between September and December was highly significant. It meant that over half the readily...
...each night as though actually thinking through the words. Like all children, says her mother, Gabrielle was "a natural believer with an enormous faith in God . . . I guess it's only as we grow older and become paved with pride and knowledge that we lose our understanding and begin to doubt and forget the things that once we never questioned...