Word: begin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the University of Michigan has always been proud of begin compared academically with Harvard this is only the second time that we have met them in an athletic endeavor. Rumor has it that the Harvard players carry copies of spinoga and Henry James in their green book bags in addition to a hockey stick...
...been sacrificing and skimping at home to retool for export, Japan's politicians and businessmen frittered away time and resources in loose planning, uncontrolled lending, lavish government subsidies, politically expedient tax reductions, a splurge of domestic production and a rash of corruption. Under Yoshida the country did not begin until last year the gestures of discipline and austerity that were needed. The gestures helped-only eight months ago economists were predicting total economic collapse. But gestures are far from enough. Japan needs an austerity at least as stringent as Britain and West Germany went through, and it needs...
Most ancient civilizations start from simple beginnings, e.g., those of Mesopotamia. In the lowest levels of their long-inhabited sites are found the crude implements of near-savages. Then, little by little, the culture improves. The people build better homes and temples; they learn higher crafts. At last they develop a written language and begin recording their history for archaeologists to read. Some of the new culture elements come from foreign contacts, but the origin of each imported item can generally be traced...
...line's inauguration, arguing that it could not let Germans fly over the country prior to restoration of German sovereignty. But Lufthansa, with the U.S. and British authorities already on its side, counted on winning over the French as well. On April 1, said Lufthansa confidently, it would begin scheduled commercial flights inside West Germany, soon to be followed by regular flights to continental points, Britain and New York. Not long after, Lufthansa expects to be making four flights weekly to New York, two to Buenos Aires, three to Teheran. Predicted Lufthansa: by 1956 it would be flying...
Almost as soon as Father Roget reaches Indo-China as a French army chaplain, his religious certainties begin to waver. Riding through the crushing heat of the jungle to a front-line outpost, he passes a ruined pagoda, and is horrified by his sudden vision of his own God "dying in the grasp of the foul, green fungus, speckled with the disease of decay." At the front Colonel Lejeune, a magnificent soldier, tells him with cold insolence that he would have preferred reinforcements to a priest. The French are corroded by defeatism, many of the soldiers are themselves Communists...