Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people, who had begun to think that the Marshall Plan would fix up everything, had trouble focusing their minds on this distant crisis. The President was sunning himself at Key West. State Department officials said they had known all along that it was going to happen; they were only surprised by its suddenness. But the upshot of the matter was just what it was nine years ago. Czechoslovakia had fallen-this time to Stalin...
...week's end, they had achieved at least part of their purpose. Their revolt had spread defeatism in the Democratic Party to such an extent that Northern labor leaders had also begun to suggest privately that Harry Truman withdraw...
...that was a technicality. In the historic sense (as distinguished from the merely biological), Karl Marx has only just begun to live...
...characters in a technique similar to that of John Dos Passes in U.S.A., long autobiographical discursions grouped under the heading: The Disintegration of Values. Some of them are hauntingly phrased: "The man who from afar off yearns for his wife or merely for the home of his childhood has begun his sleepwalking. . . . He still hears the voice of the demagogue, but it comes as a mere unmeaning murmur. He stretches his arms sideways and forwards like a poor tightrope dancer who, high above solid earth, knows of a better support...
...Keith spent $725,000 on a Boston palace for the glory that was to be vaudeville. In three years he was completely repaid, and the new artistic form had begun its golden days. When vaudeville finally died, its inheritors, the slapstick movie comedians, took over the palace, and now it is known as a Laffmovie. The new life does not quite fit the magnificent theater; and the gilded boxes, the high dome, and the murals of cherubs and angels in the hall seem somehow superfluous and foreign now that the balcony is usually roped off, and popcorn is sold...