Word: begin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced the White House at week's end, President Eisenhower will begin a threeday, seven-stop flying tour through the worst-hit of the drought areas, the skeleton-dry southern Plains states, to assess for himself the extent of the damage. In Wichita, Kans., Ike plans to join a specially convened meeting of farm, business and local government representatives to discuss possible improvements in the Government's already extensive relief program. No matter how high the new totals may go, ultimate relief can come only from a source uncontrolled by man: the saving beneficence of drenching rain...
...soon after U.S. District Court Clerk Robert Dodson received official notice that the Supreme Court had refused a rehearing on its earlier ruling against bus segregation in Montgomery. That afternoon Police Chief G. J. Ruppenthal held a closed meeting of his 159 officers, quietly told them that desegregation would begin immediately. That night the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the levelheaded boycott leader, told his fellow Negroes how they should behave. Said he: "Every Negro bears on his shoulders the weight of responsibility of the 50,000 Negroes in Montgomery. Violence must not come from...
...something about it." So the chemist, Nobel Prizewinner Glenn T. Seaborg, co-discoverer of plutonium, and the TVman, Program Director Jonathan Rice of San Francisco's educational Station KQED, got together. The result of this collaboration, a series of ten half-hour television lessons called The Elements, will begin in January over the 22 educational TV stations...
George gets them. His trials begin with the sudden death of his talented older brother Jeff, who had designed and built the Tower in the West, one of the first skyscrapers in St. Louis. Six months after the fatal accident, George learns that his brother's widow is pregnant by another man. To protect Jeff's good name, he marries her and breaks the heart of true-blue Margaret Carton, who has been patiently waiting for his proposal. George now proceeds to mishandle the affairs of his stepchildren, loses control of his brother's monumental Tower...
...really begin living until he has come close to dying. That is the message from Poet-Novelist Jesse Stuart to his readers. Busy Author Stuart, who wrote nearly 20 books in 20 years, including the rawboned poetry of Man with a Bull-Tongued Plow and bestselling Taps for Private Tussie, used to live at top speed. Then, two years ago, at 47, rushing from a lecture in Murray, Ky. to catch a chartered plane for another speaking date in Illinois, he was brought crashing to earth by a severe heart attack...