Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June 1, when work on the script had just begun, the show received a sizzling salute from the Daily Worker: "An inaccurate, slanderous, and distorted series...
Fewer Voices, More Rooms. The boom in the hotel business had begun to taper off. Horwath & Horwath, accountants for the industry, reported that in the first half of 1948, the national occupancy rate was 88% of capacity, down from the 92% in the first six months...
...Author. "Today," wrote Graham Greene shortly before World War II, "our world seems particularly susceptible to brutality. There is a touch of nostalgia in the pleasure we take in gangster novels, in characters who have so agreeably simplified their emotions that they have begun living again at a level below the cerebral. We, like Wordsworth, are living after a war and a revolution, and those half-castes fighting with bombs between the cliffs of skyscrapers seem more likely than we to be aware of Proteus rising from the sea. It is not, of course, that one wishes to stay forever...
Mexico faced the situation which has already begun to confront most Latin American countries...
Last week Brown's cult was still growing; crowds still swarmed to his farm. He had begun to intone like the Psalmist and to compare himself (favorably) with Christ. The master cell, said Brown, "takes all the fight and hatred out of men and animals alike. It will prevent disease and pestilence. It will prevent famine. It will make pigs fatter; make cows produce more milk. It makes the atom bomb obsolete . . . The master cell is my God, and it will bring peace...