Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assault on the key Jap base in the Marianas had begun nine days before. For four days a U.S. naval force had pounded Saipan. Bombers from U.S. carriers had carried in their loads of destruction. For two days U.S. battleships, cruisers, destroyers had unloaded their long, hot guns on the island...
When Poland was invaded, Hanna Kister was alone at the office. She discovered that World War II had begun when she tried to cash a check, found the bank closed. Then the telephone stopped working. The lights went out. Police and firemen disappeared. A few intellectuals appeared at the office, quickly left. "Writers are always nervous," says Mrs. Kister...
...conviction that, Mr. Churchill to the contrary, the ideologies for which we fight have not become blurred for us. . . . We are fighting a war for freedom . . . not only at home but everywhere in the world. . . . But while [our forces] are winning the armed victory for us, we have already begun to lose the things that victory could bring...
...Perhaps they had witnessed too many invocations of the Bill of Rights to justify low wages for newspaper workers. Perhaps they had seen too many abuses of power by newspapers bent on spreading the ideas of an owner group. Or perhaps-and here is the ominous possibility-they had begun to regard the newspapers no longer as trustees of constitutional liberty, but as the beneficiaries of a special privilege tending to be concentrated in fewer and fewer hands...
...chunky N.A.L. President George Theodore Baker, 43, the new route looked mighty good. In 1929 he had begun operating a charter-and-barnstorming company near Chicago; five years later switched to St. Petersburg, Fla. There National's assets consisted of tireless George Baker and a rickety, single-engined Ryan cabin plane which he flew from cow pastures at Jacksonville to empty lots at Daytona Beach...