Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble. So he got his partner, who was an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Win-the-War, to take care of this fellow who had been in this bad accident. And the result is that the patient is back on his feet. He has given up his crutches. He has begun to strike back-on the offensive. He isn't wholly well yet, and he won't be until he wins...
Most important of their recommendations: 1) that the Dominion get power from the provinces to lay down a national labor code; 2) that planning be begun on a program to build 114,000 houses a year after the war; 3) that provincial C.C.F. parties work to prevent "further alienation of natural resources," concentrate on finding opportunities for new socialized industries; 4) socialized medical care for all Canadians...
...arrange sandbags: "These are, of course, nerve-racking times. . . . Today the Weather Bureau reported: 'This afternoon slowly rising temperatures. No snow or rain. Tonight not so cold. No precipitation.' Who asked them if there would be snow or rain? Who asked about precipitation? No one. They have begun anticipating. . . . Soon they will be sending stories out saying that there will be no sun in Hoboken, or no daylight in Canarsie...
Last Post. On the morning of the third day at Tarawa we had begun burying our own dead, many of whom had been in the water for two days. It was more gruesome than I can describe. This was no dignified burial-a man's last ceremony should be dignified but this wasn't. The bulldozer, whose driver paid scant attention to the sniper who fired at him all the while, scooped a hole three feet deep. The marines, not even covered by a blanket, were laid in the hole. The bulldozer pushed some more dirt over them...
Thus last week Moscow reported the beginning of the long, slow process of calling the Nazi executioners to account. In London, the Allied War Crimes Commission was wrestling with technicalities of such trials (TIME, Dec. 20).*In Kharkov, they had begun. Not since the trials of the Trotzkyites had there been such proceedings in a Soviet court...