Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That the result could even for a moment be in doubt was a bitter comment on the West's terrible uncertainty. It was in the Italian peninsula that the West's Christian faith, bearing a cross and strange new hopes, had begun its conquest of the world. Was it to be defeated now, on the soil on which it had been strongest, by the new tyrannical faith of Communism...
...East. Red countermeasures had already begun. The day before Robertson spoke, the Russian-controlled Berlin radio announced, not unexpectedly, a plebiscite for the Soviet zone next month on the question of "unity." The foregone conclusion: most would vote "Ja." Then the Russians could set up their capital in Berlin (in their own sector), or possibly in Leipzig...
Play will resume today in the B.C. golf match originally scheduled and begun last Saturday, but cut short at the end of nine holes because of high winds and increasing darkness...
...last week, he had a rich, satisfying 18 hours. He had begun to get curious-and just a little nervous-about the Democratic bandwagon rolling towards General Ike's door. It was Roberts who had first given that wagon a shove down the Republican road and he who had announced-long in advance of Eisenhower's own statement-that Ike would decline...
...Angeles, a new career was begun by another flyer: Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, famed in wartime as a Marine ace and in peacetime for his girl trouble (TIME, Jan. 21, 1946). Adventurous Pappy was now in shirts & ties, behind a haberdasher's counter. Said he: "I've got that old retailer's smile...