Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politics formed a high-octane mixture in Paraguay last week. The Union Oil Co. of California had begun what it called "the greatest wildcatting venture in history": the oil exploration of the entire Paraguayan Chaco, some 55,000,000 acres...
...basketball competition by defeating Lowell Wednesday afternoon to produce another three-way deadlock for the winning spot of the winter's first tournament. While Company C, Companies F-G, and the Bellboys face a play-off in the last throes of one intramural series, the second tournament has already begun...
...hundred and eighty-two soldiers and two officers had been charged with taking some $200,000 in black market cigarets alone. The trials had begun and some of the defendants had already spoken up. As they talked, the line of uniformed racketeers seemed to grow & grow...
...unattractive. One of its most effective devices is demonstrations of skill by such famed crippled veterans as Charles Craig McGonegal (TIME, Feb. 14). When a crippled veteran is finally discharged from the Army, he has a life pension (e.g., $30 a month for a leg) and has usually begun to learn a trade. What General Kirk and his staff fear most is that oversolicitous or thoughtless civilians may undo their careful work...
Said the General : "We have begun to rebuild a great army [line grande armée]. . . . Allied cooperation is assured us for arming . . . new units. . . . Until the total defeat of the enemy and the permanent establishment of French security on the Rhine, no day will pass without our sword growing heavier...