Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week they were haunted by the sight of one sad wreck: the meat industry. They had put on ceilings, passed out subsidies and wage boosts, seized strike-bound plants. And what had happened? Black markets were so prevalent and so much in the open that they had almost begun to look white...
...time the President was introduced, the crowd had begun to thin out. The President's high, flat voice was strong as he emphasized his theme: "We are determined to remain strong . . . to exercise [our] leadership on behalf of a world of peace. . . ." Slowly he measured off the three points on which he said U.S. power for peace depends: 1) unification of the armed services; 2) temporary extension of Selective Service; 3) universal military training. "Now, even in an election year like this, nobody should play politics with the national safety." There was no audible response...
...excuses dragged on, there seemed little likelihood that the trials, begun last November, would be over before August...
March 1, 1945. A tired, broken man, at journey's end, made his final broadcast, almost twelve years to the day since, vigorous and full of hope, he had begun his presidency. In an unsure, dragging voice, Franklin Roosevelt told the nation: "I am confident . . . we can begin to build, under God, that better world...
Those who had begun to fear that no workable plan could be found for international control of the atom had still to be shown that this was really such a plan. But the report raised hopes that the 20th Century's most impelling quest was not necessarily doomed to failure...