Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Virginia's Harry Byrd, who had led the futile economy fight, calculated that "Since the war ... we have reduced the debt 3% . . . Now we propose to start another chain of annual debt increases...
...million kitty, Kennan argued, would permit a start on the only dynamic policy now proposed from any source-a systematic interference with Communist organization of East Asia. Obviously, it would need privacy and finesse in application, which the discretionary feature of the Republican amendment would make possible...
...general store in the Quebec village of Compton (pop. 1,000). Those were the days when Sir Wilfrid Laurier was leader of the Liberal Party. Young Louis lent an ear to all the hot & heavy political talk around the cracker barrel, and was an ardent Laurier Liberal from the start...
...think they should "do something else" besides going to college). But more than two-thirds of the farmers and wage earners in the survey also want a college education for their sons. A smaller majority (56%) think it would be a pretty good idea for the U.S. Government to start passing out federal scholarships to send "qualified" youngsters who "otherwise couldn't afford...
Every time Fleur Fenton Cowles tried to tell her publisher-husband, Gardner Cowles, about the kind of monthly class magazine she would like to start, she found herself repeating: "It's got to have flair." Says Fleur: "I couldn't get around the word. I just had to use it." After she had dreamed and importuned for two years, Publisher Cowles decided that Fleur was absolutely right. This week, 46-year-old "Mike" and his 50-year-old brother John, who already own two magazines (Look, Quick), four newspapers and four radio stations, announced that they will publish...