Word: onset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last six years Editor Morley has made the Washington Post's editorial page required reading for the 531 U. S. Congressmen. How he could give up such a job, at the onset of a Presidential campaign, was a mystery to his newspaper colleagues. His explanation: "Personally I have the feeling that I have been spending intellectual capital and discovering that it is difficult to replace. So, in a curious way, Haverford's need is my opportunity...
...With the onset of World War II and the promise of a whopping diversion of tourist business to Florida, Mr. Washburn last fall took a full-page ad in the New York Times, offered Hog Island to anyone with a tropical yearning and $150,000 to spare. The ad brought scores of queries, a few prospective buyers, including an Italian from Manhattan who wanted to found a new Roman Empire...
Nothing will do, declares Wells, except a social revolution, "profounder even than the revolution attempted by the Communists in Russia." That one failed, declares he, "not by its extremism but through the impatience, violence, and intolerance of its onset, through lack of foresight, and intellectual insufficiency...