Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corrective, the physicians put both legs in plaster casts for two weeks, then fitted their patient with seven-pound steel braces from hips to heels. Gentle exercises on a bedboard were begun...
Open City was recently shown to members of the Vatican State Secretariat, who said they appreciated its spiritual content. It was begun shortly after the Nazis scurried out of Rome, photographed with a minimum of studio equipment on five-year-old film bought at fancy prices in the black market. The cast was half amateur, half professional. Despite these difficulties, Open City is a graphic, bitter, harrowing document and a denial of 21 years of Mussolini...
...Like few prelates, Spellman had a secular education in the public schools of Whitman, Mass. He delivered groceries, peddled papers, played baseball and was a trolley-car conductor at an age when most of the solemn little Italian boys who are now his contemporaries in the Church had already begun their education for the priesthood...
...invasion of England has begun, reported the Eton College Chronicle in alarm. "An army of ill-bred and offensive words . . . spreading from Whitehall," said the Chronicle, "has contaminated our newspapers, whose pages are filled with roving participles and the remains of shattered infinitives...
Toward the end of the war, Pratt said, the Navy had begun to improve itself, but "the Army clung throughout to [Major] General [Alexander] Surles, retired, who . . . simply lacked the background to be anything more than one of the glorified lackeys the Army system produced...