Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...isolated event: it was the culmination of a foreign policy which had resulted in war. The U.S., to gain time for an inevitable war with Japan-inevitable unless Japan was to be allowed to conquer Asia-had appeased Japan by selling her oil and scrap iron, and then had begun to squeeze Japan by gradually cutting off these supplies...
Through such bitter, bloody battling on the southern sectors last week, the Americans came close to completing the first phase of their three-weeks-old offensive. The second phase-penetrations of the mud-ugly, coal-rich Saar River valley-had already begun this week. In one bold move the Americans seized a bridge across the Saar, got a first toehold in the Saar's Siegfried Line defenses...
Thus, by this week, everybody under the State Department's grey, gabled eaves knew that there was indeed a new man at the helm. But Ed Stettinius had only begun. Further changes "strengthening the Department" were promised...
...plan for the formation of a new Balkan state-federated Yugoslavia-was announced officially from Moscow last week. A new chapter in Balkan and European history had begun...
Laid in 1912, the play (unlike the book) introduces its hero in middle age, when the mold has hardened and the mold has begun to collect. To tradition-reflexed George Apley, Boston is Western Civilization, Emerson the Bible, Mount Auburn cemetery the carriage entrance to Heaven, and the strenuous life a round of bird walks, committee meetings and the best clubs. Sex, Apley gathers from a reading of Freud, "very largely governs the lives of the people ... in other parts of the country." Even in Boston, to Apley's dismay, its lure involves his son and daughter, as once...