Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been on the offensive. . . . U.S. imperialism today is attempting formation of a Catholic bloc round the Mediterranean [Italy, France, Spain] to form a spearhead against the Soviet Union. The Vatican, which claims to have been anti-capitalist even in evangelical times, when, to my knowledge, capitalism hadn't begun to exist, is now a strenuous defender of American imperialism. The Pope is hand in glove with Protestant Freemason Truman. Our immediate objective is to prevent formation of that bloc...
...news spread, one Jorge Blau wrote from Bolivia's northeastern jungle to say that he was Stephen's brother. Austrian representatives in Rio filed a claim. A search was begun for the heirs in Vienna. Last week, the La Paz courts were trying to decide what should be done with the fortune of this old beggar who apparently forgot that he had 8,000,000 bolivianos stored away...
After taking an eight-year knockout count, Harvard's biggest bugaboo of recent years, the professional tutoring school, has begun its climb from the canvas...
...taken the Buddhist cure for his troubles (i.e., counting beads and keeping the Buddhist Sabbath), paled as he entered the death cell in Insein jail. Outside, in a glare of fireworks, the independence festivities had begun...
Like most apprentice painters of the period, Bruegel had begun by making a trip to Italy to learn how Madonnas were done. The experience left his Protestant nature cold; he preferred the brawling uncertainties of the North, and the moralizing surrealism of his Flemish forerunner, Hieronymus Bosch (TIME, Sept. 15). Before he died in 1569, Bruegel was to paint a series of complicated masterpieces in oil, but he got his start working from and for the market place, selling his engravings cheap. His horny-handed customers were bound to appreciate pictured proverbs like The Hay Runs After the Horse (symbolizing...