Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supreme Electoral Court in a punctilious check of the voting was throwing out ballots by the armful. Sample court legalism: all of the ballots deposited in one Quito polling place (the President and Vice President voted there) were discredited because the voting had begun five minutes early...
...Tactics. Sinarquistas are as dead set as ever against the anticlerical ideas of the Mexican revolution. But their tactics have changed. The little clique of lawyers who run the movement has begun to translate its strength into political power. Whether this is due to the new party's energetic young president, Schoolmaster Seferino Sánchez Hidalgo, or to two key leaders, Enrique Marfin and Hidalgo Gonzalez (now conferring with Falangist chiefs in Spain), is not clear...
...Trained observers," says Aviation Week, "have been reporting rumors for months that a Russian jet plane has flown faster than sound." Its estimated speed: 745 m.p.h. "The plane can now be identified as the Russian design of the DFS 346, a plane begun by the Germans . . . The Germans never finished the DFS 346, and it, along with its engineers, presumably went into Russian possession...
...would be harder to restore the damage to U.S. prestige abroad. Though most foreign nations had begun to understand some of the exasperating facts of U.S. political life, they could not help feeling that U.S. policy was indeed steered by the lights of each passing ship...
...Russia's Grand Duchess Olga, youngest sister of the late Czar Nicholas, was Canada-bound after 27 years of farming in Denmark. The Russians had begun to question her status, so Olga & family left Denmark to avoid embarrassing the government, to farm in Canada...