Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They soon found him. In the rainy darkness isolated machine guns began to stutter. Six or eight miles away in the inland Mubo area, Australian jungle fighters had begun to deploy their patrols toward the shore. Two days later they joined forces with the Americans at Nassau...
...past year marks the abrogation of the unequal treaties with foreign powers, ending what China calls 'a century of oppression.' This is the fact least grasped by Westerners and most important for understanding China. For the Chinese, in a sense, this is not only a war begun on July 7, 1937, but an incident in a greater struggle reaching back through the Nationalist Revolution of 1927 and the Republican Revolution of 1911 to the Opium War of 1840. In the chronicle of that struggle it will be recorded that only in the sixth year of the war against...
...Anglican Bishop of South Tokyo heard, to his "complete amazement," that war had begun. Six hours later, four Jap policemen dropped in, took him to a police station, frisked him, took away his suspenders but left him with his clothes and his spectacles (a considerable concession...
Registration for the freshman course has already begun. The instructors have not yet been announced, since Captain William R. Magruder and Lieutenant Mill Sci I, are not available for teaching. Men who complete the course should expect no reductions in basic training if inducted in to the army, but the training they receive will be bargaining point in their favor in selection for O.C.S...
Further approval of the Northern Primate's action came from the Anglican Church's third-ranking prelate, the Bishop of London. Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher let it be known that he, too, had begun negotiations with the commissioners to halve his own salary ($40,000), revamp ancient 44-room Fulham Palace, keep a few rooms for himself, turn the rest into a diocesan hostel...