Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place of Italy was settled for the duration. Pietro Badoglio completed a maneuver begun last July when Vittorio Emanuele had him seize Mussolini: Italy had been eased from the losing to the winning side without so much as the loss of a king...
...Billets have been out so long that everyone has become philosophical about his own. Even those poor unfortunates who didn't originally like their assignments have begun to discover good points. As a whole, the billet-list seems to have been nothing short of fabulous and it is hard to find many officers who did not receive one of their choices--the few who did not only serve to emphasize the many...
...Japs have a new fighter, more formidable than the Zeros.* Maine's Senator Ralph 0. Brewster (see p. 13) declared last week that the ratio of U.S. air victories has begun to drop, that Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force flyers in China were so surprised by their first brush with Japan's new fighter that they lost five out of seven bombers...
...armored division) had started to the left. Quickly he doubled back, took the ball from the quarterback (51st Highlanders) and sliced through the right side of his line, between the defensive left and tackle. His guard (9th Australians) blocked the defensive halfback and a historic advance had begun...
...most dazzling display of any combatant. Working on the aeronautical axiom that "there is no substitute for soup," U.S. designers got their super-powered (2,000 h.p. and above) craft off the production lines and into action. The result was something more than they expected when design was begun, generally three or four years...