Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heights to the right. These were important preliminaries to getting through to the coastal plain where Kairouan and perhaps some of Rommel's retreating strength could be assaulted. When the British troops reached their first objective at 7:30 the first morning, the U.S. troops had not begun to move. All day the British worked their way efficiently along their ridges; all day the U.S. troops tentatively approached but never stormed the first of their heights. Finally, though the U.S. failure to clear the right flank meant terrible losses, British tanks ran the gamut of the pass, won Fondouk...
...fight against inflation has begun belatedly and has only begun. The ranks of labor and the farm bloc have not been split, but only temporarily subdued, by the presidential directive, and they may yet help turn the tide towards inflation. Congress did its inflationary bit with the Debt Extension Bill by over-"riding" the demands for a $25,000 ceiling on wages. But price and wage ceilings are essentially "therapeutic" and not "prophylactic" measures. They are the pound of prevention that is not worth an ounce of cure. The forgotten factor of anti-inflation policy is the curbing of spending...
...world, Tojo was signaling the fact that island Japan had become a continental power. The Japanese had begun to withdraw some of their own troops from China, replace them with thousands of Chinese, sometimes under Japanese officers, often under Chinese officers from Manchukuo. The Nanking government is now allowed to handle economic exploitation of Occupied China and the squeeze is as merciless as when it was applied by Japan. Nanking, pleased, declared war on Britain and the U.S. (TIME, Jan. 18). Last week Tokyo relinquished some of its extraterritorial concessions, nominally placed them in Chinese hands...
...quiet and darkness a single file of helmeted sappers goes up the line; next, bayonet-bearing infantry, slowly, then faster. These are not actors. The faces are childlike rather than grim; be wildered, never fierce. Then the artillery command is barked, shouted, repeated, roared, amplified: FIRE! The barrage has begun...
Could it was that Midshipmen have begun investing in steady dates? Why else the lack of enthusiasm for the Pine Manor shindig tomorrow night? It's worth it just for the ride in one o' them there gas buggies, almost. Unleas you can show us someone like Oakesey's Barbara B. or Slater's Gloria N., we say c'mon along and take a chance on your good looks...