Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the grey walls of Sofia's grey palace, death came suddenly to Boris III, King and Dictator of Bulgaria. His 25-year reign had begun in war and chaos. It closed in war and chaos...
Seniors! Magie word, but already some of it has begun to wear off. We shall soon be used to seeing each other with collar devices and aside from that we don't look any different or any better than we ever...
...attempt to draft Tom Dewey at next year's G.O.P. convention. Reason: he could not afford to turn the state over to a Democrat. Such a result would also give Democrats a chance to boast that the Republican tide which set in last year with Tom Dewey has begun...
...road was edged with the menace of mines, booby traps and demolition chasms. But clearly the stubborn, skillful, beaten enemy had pulled out. At 5:30 a.m., Aug. 17, Lieutenants Jeff McNeely and Ralph Yates led patrols into Messina. The Battle of Sicily, 38 days after it had begun, was over...
...Tally. In both Berlin and Moscow grim men tallied up the blood-&-iron cost of the first month and a half of the great summer battle, begun by intuitive Hitler on July 5. Germany's losses, Moscow said, totalled 1,000,000 dead and wounded men, 4,600 planes, 7,200 tanks, 5,000 guns, 24,200 trucks. The Red losses, Berlin announced, were 1,250,000 men, 12,500 tanks, 500 guns. Even salted down, these sets of figures indicated that the battle dwarfed Sicily in blood and import...