Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real rush had begun. State chairmen frantically waved their banners for recognition. The Wallace total shrank swiftly...
...ports in northern Italy-Leghorn and Ancona-were captured. Five days later the Allies were at the Arno River, had fought in the streets of Pisa, stood only twelve miles from Florence. Only these two cities remained before the last grand assault of the Battle of Italy could be begun-the attack on the German Gothic Line in the high Appenines...
...world. Winston Churchill had made one of this man's books "must" reading for the British War Cabinet and for Dominion Premiers who visited London last May. British liberals, scorned and derided by this man, had risen against him. A later book by the same man had just begun to make a stir...
...during the London blitz, or even during our early dive-bombing days in Africa. With those four narrow squeaks at Anzio [where a bomb blew in two walls of a room where he was sleeping] coming after a year and a half of sporadic squeaks, I have begun to feel I have about used up my chances...
...most startling "evidence" was his observation of the way certain people walk. A child, said Volf, always takes his first toddling steps toward the east. Why? Because the earth's rotation in that direction makes it easier. Suggested Volf: "Just try to call a child who has begun to walk in the easterly direction. If you are west of the child, he will stop, sit down, turn around and crawl back on all fours...