Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charlie McCarthy for Stalin. . . ." Such complainants failed to grasp the salient fact of Churchill's speech: to the. best of his vast abilities, Tory Churchill was fighting defensively for Britain. At the end of a restive, two-day debate, Anthony Eden completed the maneuvers which his chief had begun. Like Churchill, the Foreign Secretary carefully retraced the give-&-take of Allied moves in Europe...
Lately Noles has begun making artificial eyes from plastic (Chicago's Mager & Gougelman also make them). Reason: glass-eye glass came from Germany and supplies were dwindling. Now he has decided that plastic eyes (material is similar to that used in dental plates) are better than glass eyes anyway. Advantages: 1) they are not breakable-Noles illustrates this by bouncing a plastic eye on the floor, catching it on the rebound without a scratch; 2) the softer plastic is more "sympathetic" than glass to the tissues around the eye; 3) plastic eyes look more natural than glass eyes because...
...campaign had begun hopefully. British and Indian troops captured Maungdaw, close by the Burma-India border. Patrols moved south, following the west side of the Mayu ridge. Other British columns swung east toward Buthidaung to protect the left flank...
...politics. We fight for principles or war is madness. If we deny this, we deny all that the war has cost us and our Allies; we ought never to have begun.... We chose the long, hard road because it was right, as well as expedient for our safety; because we could not tolerate, coming slowly nearer, the denial and destruction of decent living. We went to war for political reasons; and we cannot weaken so long as the 'evil things'-brute force, bad faith and intolerance−have still to be broken, or so long as 'life...
...hottest farming argument since the tractor first challenged the horse was started last summer by Farmer Edward Faulkner's attack on the moldboard plow -Plowman's Folly (TIME, July 26). Last week returns on the great debate had begun to come in. They were very favorable to Faulkner...