Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train's backers might well have assumed that their project would be as free of criticism as the Barnum & Bailey Circus. But no; the attacks had already begun. Michigan's Congressman Clare E. Hoffman, a hard-shelled, far-right Republican, at once denounced it as a Democratic "buildup for 1948." Illinois' 81-year-old Adolph Sabath, a Democrat, complained because no copy of the Wagner Labor Act was included in the exhibits. In Henry Wallace's New Republic, Langston Hughes, Red-winged Negro poet, heaved a shrewdly aimed rock...
...furor, but after the first shock, he seemed almost resigned. His western tour had been playing him tricks almost since he began planning it. He had hoped to make a quiet, semi-vacation trip, sounding out the reaction to his hopes for the presidency. But speaking invitations had begun pouring...
Cried Togliatti: "The battle which was begun with the northern agricultural strike is to continue tomorrow with a strike in heavy industry. It is only a beginning and a sample of what the workers will do if fulfillment of their rights is resisted...
...patients, Dr. Foss warned, now face a new hazard: many of the 40,000 young medical officers demobilized at war's end have begun to practice surgery without proper training (because surgical posts in hospitals, where they might be trained, are scarce...
...Christianity' stunt by excited missioners, than which nothing could be more detestable. . . . People have discovered by bitter experience that when man starts out on his own to build a society by his own power and knowledge, he succeeds in building something uncommonly like Hell; and they have seriously begun...