Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grandstand at the same time I'm raising the price of the bleacher seats, you're crazy." After the tax bills had passed, he remarked to a friend: "Those bastards are so accustomed to getting their own way they make blueprints for their track and start scheduling trains over it right away. When the trains don't go through they're startled...
...than ever. The moment that his old mentor, Senator Martin, began sniping at the flanks of ERP, Duff rose up before a Temple University audience to throw his full weight behind the Marshall Plan. He jarred the old guard again by warning a P.M.A. dinner that the way to start fighting inflation was by cutting back prices. When he let it be known that he was getting ready to swing his convention support behind a candidate of his own choosing, the regulars reached for their knives...
...which was secretly submitted to Congress at the start of the current session is even stronger: it permits the Executive to declare a state of emergency and to draft every individual and every enterprise into service and make them subject to military law. In a nation that hasn't fought a war for 70 years, this law can only be interpreted as a device for maintaining civil order...
...York City's Van Cortlandt Park this week, a serious-faced group of aspirants-with bare legs and a sprinkling of bald heads-lined up for the big tryout in the 10,000-meter walking race. At the start, a few irreverent spectators began to snicker. The walkers, strutting along with exaggerated hip-wiggles, took no notice. They are used to playing to laughs every time they perform...
...STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING (306 pp.)-Dale Carnegie-Simon & Schuster...