Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surest way for a U.S. visitor in Canada to start an argument is to ask a Canadian: "Why don't you come into a customs union with us?" A customs union, or some kind of economic union between the two countries, has been mooted off & on for 99 years.* Now ERP and Canada's increasingly close economic ties with the U.S. have made it a very live issue...
...Mamma, nothing cheered her so much as an American visitor. Writes daughter Anne: "She felt herself to be an island around which surged forty million incurious French. . . . When she spoke of herself as a Southerner, these foreigners understood her to mean South America and that was a bad start, so Mamma never brought the French into her universe and was never part of theirs." When she died in 1914 as the Germans advanced, "she took everything with her: the small safe world built around us by her love. A world where good children flourished and the bad ones escaped righteous...
...Lecture Hall will assume an almost military appearance tonight due to the large number of cops expected for HYD's Civil Rights Meeting, scheduled to start at 7:45 o'clock. Speakers include Gerhart Eisler, Carl Marsani, and Professor Lyman R. Bradley of N.Y.U...
With a squad three-quarters made up of letter winners, Exeter poses trouble for the Freshman track team, which journeys to the New Hampshire school today. In its last start, B.U. squeezed out a victory over the Yardlings, 552/3 to 531/3. April showers have hampered practice sessions of the squad...
...meeting will then occur until late in October. Clark considered it a safe prediction that the Memorial Committee itself would not convene before the start of the fall...