Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Government did not prosecute all other U.S. citizens who hold a similar belief, not even all other U.S. Trotzkyites. The prosecution of Vince Dunne and his followers was begun at the instigation of "Uncle Dan" Tobin, general president of the Teamsters Union, with whom they had fought bitterly in Minneapolis. And Uncle Dan has powerful friends in Washington...
...research seems intuitive rather than logical-the average Russian scientist often prefers to work things out in his head without resort to guinea pigs. U.S. doctors reluctantly admit that he often comes out with the right answer, but they want to be shown. U.S. research on ACS has already begun...
...Revolution of 1830 momentarily interrupted his dramatic career. Dumas was about to start south with his latest mistress when news that street fighting had begun in Paris filled him with joy. He volunteered to go to Soissons, seize some badly needed powder. The commander of the arsenal, a former colonial officer, at first refused to surrender to the kinky-haired playwright. But the officer's wife cried: "Oh, my darling, yield! This is another revolt of the Negroes!" Dumas brought back the powder to Paris, was embraced by Lafayette and the Duke of Orleans, who said: "M. Dumas...
...Pearl Harbor the Army Air Forces has grown to be the world's biggest air power. Said "Hap" Arnold of one of the most dramatic developments of fighting power in history: "It is now plain that for us the beginning has ended; for our enemies the end has begun...
...Arnold made no promises, but it was plain that, even though he kept a tight grip on his irrepressible optimism, he did not think the end, already begun, was in any doubt...