Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorker hurriedly unloaded the last of its anecdotes on the maid shortage. Soon A-card holders would get more gasoline; by the end of the year there would even be a few new cars. The battle for Okinawa, begun three weeks before the final collapse of the Ruhr pocket, flared hotter than ever...
...Europe, already set up near Reims, was a vast deployment center (about 60 sq. mi.). Into it had begun the march of veterans eligible for discharge. Some eligibles, specialists in their fields, would have to wait for trained replacements. The shifting of men by ones, by tens, by new temporary companies...
...using its claims to a share of Germany as a bargaining point with both Britain and Russia. The U.S., well into an unfamiliar game, had based its occupation plans (see below) on the assumption that Germany was to be solely an occupation problem. Now, before the occupation was well begun, that assumption was dead...
...starlit Philippine sky covered the roofless ruins of old Santa Cruz church. Viennese-born Conductor Herbert Zipper stepped onto the plank podium-and the Manila Symphony Society's first concert since December 1941 had begun...
...railroads are getting up steam to handle the greatest long-distance transportation job in their history-the overland haul of tens of thousands of U.S. troops, and equipment, on their way from Europe to the Pacific. By last week the big freight push to the West had already begun...