Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food and other non-military supplies to the Chinese people as long as possible (i.e., until the Communists took over completely, as they have in Mukden, forcing ECA to shut up shop; 2) the State Department, which has made no pronouncement of its political position toward China since the start of the recent Communist military successes, continued to be absolutely...
...department store union since its founding in New York in 1937. From the very beginning the union was ridden by Communists. Department store clerks -sometimes college-educated, generally low-paid, and frequently resentful-were susceptible to Communist colonizing. It was once said: "When the revolution comes it will start in a bargain basement...
...each of the countries independently, depending on how advanced was the stage of capitalism. It was Lenin who broke away from Marx's idea of the revolutionary process operating all by itself in each country. Lenin deduced, contrary to Marx, that the series of Communist revolutions might start in a backward country, rather than in an advanced country. Lenin, justifying the un-Marxian revolution in slowpoke Russia, called this a "break" in the world front...
Students found time to start a literary society, publish a magazine, and indulge in diversions that met with faculty approval: boating, fishing, wicket and quoits. It was considered "morally wrong" for students to spend much time over a chessboard, and some young wastrels had been known to patronize saloons, gaming houses and even the theater...
Lend an Ear (sketches, lyrics & music by Charles Gaynor; produced by William R. Katzell, Franklin Gilbert & William Eythe) blossoms out, after a long, wintry start, into a really gay intimate revue. Hailing from the West Coast, it often has a rough-diamond, loud-check sense of fun about it; and can be strenuously youthful as well as unpolished. But it has the greatest of assets for an intimate revue-a satiric eye and sassy tongue; and when it manages to be deft and daft at once, is thoroughly hilarious...