Word: begin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town's mill owners give the motivation, "The white workers and the coloured workers must not unite against us." Against this backdrop, the four children begin their friendship. One of the group, Billy, asks his teacher," "Miss Houghton, are white and black people brothers...
...Commons; he chooses his line of defense without hesitation. At the level of specific answer to specific questions he is far more decisive and less of a procrastinator than Churchill. (When he was waked from a sound sleep to receive Bulganin's note, his first reaction was to begin drafting a reply-not to call experts for an assessment of Russian intentions or to check on Brit ain's defense capabilities...
...Brethren." On the Suez issue he was still defiant. "So long as there is a foreign force, one single foreign soldier in Egypt," said he, "we shall not begin repairing the canal and we shall not begin running the canal. Eden will never force us to surrender. Egypt was made to fight, my brethren, we were made to fight. After ten days of fighting, we are all of us one monolithic people...
...Cerro Bolivar's 1955 output: more than 6,000,000 tons, i El Pao's: 3,600,000. These two moun-j tains accounted for all of Venezuela's ! iron-ore exports last year, but a newly formed U.S.-Venezuelan company expects to begin shipping ore from El Trueno by late...
Down the Mines. In 1910 she got her chance to do something about it: Illinois' Governor Charles Deneen appointed her to a state commission to investigate "occupational diseases." Her commission did not know where to begin because there was not even an official list of dangerous occupations, so Dr. Hamilton compiled it as she went from factory to factory. She could not demand admittance, but most managers let her in. The woman doctor brashly invaded the man's world, plowed through unventilated, fume-filled plant after plant. She took air samples, studied the ubiquitous dusts, noted...