Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There had been early warnings, a few cases reported around the country. But then 44 U.S. Navymen in Key West, Fla., began complaining of sore throats, fever and chills. Last week, after taking throat cultures from the men, doctors confirmed the bad news: Taiwan flu has arrived and begun to take its toll...
Neither of its weekend conquests, of Brown, 5-2, and Yale, 4-1, were particularly taxing, and the Crimson has begun to display the mid-season form it used to reach the NCAA finals last March...
...response to the city's drive to revitalize East Cambridge, a private firm has begun to build a 171-unit, $50-million luxury condominium complex...
...search to fill the post has begun and "it is quite possible that it will be filled by someone from within the school," said K-School spokesman Steve Singer. He said he did not know from what area of government the K-School might pluck the professor...
...taking most of the pratfalls himself, James seems to play along with the Aussie baiting that "for the English chattering classes . . . had begun to serve as a mild form of licensed antiSemitism." But like many a clever provincial before him, he knows that writing well is the best revenge. In his pages, it is the English who emerge as outlandish, not least in their accents. One office colleague offered James a cake that proved to be a soft drink. "No, not cake," she explained. "Cake. Cake-Akela...