Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then came the crossexamination. The Navy's famed Nov. 27 message to Pearl Harbor had begun with the words: "This is ... a war warning." Hadn't the Admiral considered this highly significant? His answer boomed: "I did not consider it an extraordinary message...
...Winter's Tale (by William Shakespeare; produced by The Theatre Guild) dates from that final period of Shakespeare's when reality-even real people-had seemingly begun to bore him. His plays became such stuff as dreams are made on-fantastic, capricious, inconsecutive, at times nightmarish. Shakespeare's brain begot such villains and monsters as Iachimo in Cymbeline, Caliban in The Tempest, Leontes in The Winter's Tale. But terror and tragedy took shape only to melt away at last in benign late-afternoon sunlight...
Lincoln Ellsworth, 65, perennial polar explorer, was off again early in the first year of peace-perhaps the first robin of an old-fashioned explorers' spring. (Admiral Byrd had already begun to yearn aloud for the South Pole.) Explorer Ellsworth headed for the Rift valley volcanic areas in East Africa; after that, said he, would come the Antarctic again. "I just cannot keep away...
...Report. Though principles had often outrun performance, MacArthur's 19-section report showed this enormous undertaking begun. Items: ¶ There has been "growing consciousness of Japan's war guilt." ¶ Schools, teachers and textbooks are being completely reformed. (Last week MacArthur invited 30 leading U.S. educators to visit Japan and make recommendations.) ¶ Instead of thought control, "the press, radio, cinema and theater are now free to express themselves." ¶ The number of Japanese magazines has increased from 32 to 306. ¶ Among the new radio programs: The Man on the Street, The Woman's Hour...
...year which had begun in the certainty of war ended in the confusion of paradox...