Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Washington came the grim prediction of housing experts that the worst is yet to come. With demobilization rapidly increasing, the exodus of unemployed war workers from crowded industrial centers had not yet begun. The situation, said the NHA, will grow steadily worse until midwinter; the end of the ban on private building will have little effect before...
...homily hit home; such thoughts were already in the minds of most of the U.S. people. By this week the average, long-suffering U.S. citizen had begun to grow impatient with labor-management strife and the threat of more. He had good cause: he was caught in the middle and he was getting hurt...
...Japanese people had already begun to toy with freedom. Newspapers flexed their muscles and criticized the old regime. Hundreds of letters, denouncing and demanding, broke into astonishing print. Politicians and intellectuals, eager to please the Americans, were busy forming new political parties. Long-repressed concepts came up in their talk: universal suffrage, proportional representation, free economy, free trade. Old Ichiro Hatoyama, leader of the rising Liberal Party, talked soberly of strengthening the Diet and weakening the Army and Navy. The forms and manners of party rule were not new to the Japs, whose Diet (Parliament) is 55 years...
...TIME'S error had a small kernel of truth: some of the original Palace, begun by Edward the Confessor (d. 1066), still stands as part of Britain's Houses of Parliament. But most of the Palace was destroyed by fires...
...spot where any action is something of a miracle, General Hawley has begun to act. He has decided on some stopgaps and some long-term plans...