Word: begin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fund of $530 million "to enable the Department of Defense to begin a program of aiding our allies in developing ... an improved and better-coordinated early warning and communications system . . . utilizing advanced weapons systems, including missiles...
...asking him to denounce terrorism. Makarios had replied: "I am sincerely afraid that an official condemnation of events by myself would not find at the present stage the necessary response, but would involve a risk of exposing me rather unprofitably." Dr. Fisher suggested a way out: Britain should immediately begin preparing a constitution for Cyprus; Makarios should be told that he will be allowed to return as soon as public order is restored. In the House of Commons, Eden's exiling of Makarios was approved 317 to 252. Eden had won back some of the sulking Conservative backbenchers...
Modern critics have increased the gap between the poet and his public audience by forgetting that criticism should begin and end in enjoyment, Edwin Muir, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, charged last night...
After two weeks of bickering over the latter committee's personnel, the new investigation seems almost ready to begin. Headed by Arkansas' John L. McClellan, the special body will undertake a comprehensive inquiry which, if it can dig out the full story on lobbying, should prove most salutary both for the Senate and for the nation. But beyond its educational function, the McClellan group can serve a useful purpose by recommending much-needed changes in federal laws regulating lobbying...
...want recalcitrant states to do is to begin to make a beginning in the right direction. Whenever such a step has been made, the NAACP has taken no action, and has tried to help. No lawsuits have been filed in states such as Arkansas, West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Missouri," he pointed...