Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starter the Dominion's Labor Department has begun to recruit 60,000 loggers. High wages in munitions factories have stripped of workers such basic Canadian industries as logging, pulpwood cutting and mining...
From the few details released it appeared that the operation had begun eleven days earlier. U.S. newspapers shrilled "gigantic," "large-scale," the "first big penetration of the Balkans by the Western Allies." Then headquarters shut up. Adjectives began to sag. Correspondents began talking of a "mystery army...
...life history were obscure, but the results were plowed deep in Tito's gullied face. But before the plowing began, before he was even Tito, he was plain Josip Broz. His father was a Croat blacksmith in the village of Klanjec, near Zagreb. He had scarcely begun to learn his father's trade when the shot with which the Serbian nationalist, Govirlo Princip, killed the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, shot young Josip Broz into the Austrian Army...
...years later, Russia's war front collapsed like a dynamited wall. Most Russian soldiers were peasants and they had heard that inland the peasants were dividing the land. They surged homewards. In Petrograd and Moscow, the Bolsheviks were preparing to seize power. The greatest revolution in history had begun...
...before they could leave, Lieut. Dickins said, a fight had begun. His friend was pinioned in a chair and slugged by a bystander. Going to his friend's help, he himself was hit, and he hit back. Lieut. Dickins, onetime footballer at the University of Miami, said he "knocked down four or five." Then a flying wedge of bell hops stopped the fight...