Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spreading in Communist ranks. Communists cannot rally the working class of Western Europe against the Marshall Plan, because many of the Socialist leaders are for the plan. The Polish declaration is an attempt to gain the appearance of having the initiative. In Italy a bloodless civil war has begun. There is no sign that the Reds will be so foolhardy as to start a military civil war. The decorous blue serge suit is still prescribed Communist fashion; but last week the Communists, in effect, unbuttoned the double-breasted coat long enough for the world to get a look...
...autumn offensive of Communist General Lin Piao's "United Democratic Army" had begun Oct. 1. Pinching from both sides of the Mukden-Changchun railway, it had quickly crunched more than 100 miles of the Government-held corridor. Changchun itself, which the Japanese had planned as the modern stone & steel capital city of Manchuria, was surrounded., The big iron works at Anshan (or what remained after Russian removals following V-J day) were at the edge of the Nationalist line, 55 miles south of Mukden. Communists pressed nearer the great open-pit coal mines at Fushun...
...pound, a poor woman five pounds to return to her home in England, and even the money that he throws away boastfully feeds hungry people. Wonderful dramatic scenes highlight the movie-Gyppo, the informer, drops some pieces of silver at the betrayed man's wake. They have not yet begun to suspect, but suddenly Gyppo sees himself as Judas. It is the drama of self-recognition, in which a potentially good man realizes the horror of his own fate...
Without watching, Lally indicated, the autos would be at least as safe from vandals as they would be on the Cambridge streets. A talk with the local police chief had convinced him that once the assault on overnight parking had begun in earnest, it would be "absolutely unsafe" to leave a car on the streets through the night...
...complete rearrangement of Freshman affairs is needed, with the Union as the dominant factor. Begun fairly unsuccessfully last winter, this rearrangement includes forums, dances, weekly movie nights, as well as pleasant surroundings. But last year the handicap of having two thousand Freshmen seemed too much for the officials and students. The new secretary of the Union is a young and vital man, and he is using this year's class as guinca pigs for the experiment of restoring the club-like atmosphere as well as the activities to the Union. But at the present there is not enough impoius toward...