Word: embarks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irish didn't fight for over 700 years for their survival as a nation in order now to embark on a policy which would invite annihilation. Consequently, Mr. de Valera's conscience is clear when he says "the Irish people will defend their rights in regard to these ports against whoever shall attack them...
Thirteen newspapermen, selected from 221 applicants in 39 states, have invaded Cambridge to embark on the third year of Harvard's unique $1,000,000 attempt "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism in the United States...
Over a thousand members of the Class of 1944 will awake the yard from its summer lethargy on the morning of September twentieth as Harvard begins its three hundredth and fifth year. Starting with the perils of laundry venders and Lampoon salesmen, the new freshmen will embark on their career in Cambridge as a thoroughly typical class in respect to number and geographical distribution...
...flee his British Ministry of Information job in Paris when the victorious German columns entered the city, Maugham made his way south through the chaos of collapsing France while London papers listed him as missing. For days he waited for some means of transportation, finally received orders to embark on one of two colliers sent to rescue British subjects from the Riviera...
Meanwhile the Royal Navy, with the willing help of countless merchant seamen and a host of volunteers, strained every nerve and every effort and every craft to embark the British and Allied troops...