Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foremost users. Their country has an overabundance of coca leaves, from which the white-crystalline-powdered drug is refined. In the highland valleys of the Peruvian Andes, the green coca plants-stretch out for miles in cultivated fields, like wheat in Kansas. Use of the drug got its start after the Spanish conquest, when Peruvian Indians began chewing coca to offset the hunger and fatigue they suffered under their new masters. Later, miners took to chewing it to last out their long day, andinos to counteract high-altitude sickness. Last year 8,200 tons of the leaf were chewed...
Ingrid Bergman, about to start work on a new movie on the island of Stromboli, took time off to take in the sights of Rome. Her guide through the ruins: Director Roberto Rossellini...
With the gun, he launched himself into the water like a spent torpedo. He rolled a spray-spattered eye at the four other sprinters splashing in other lanes until he saw whom he had to beat. Then, head down, he started churning, with a fast arm but a slow, deep kick that is uncommon to sprinters. A pinwheel fast turn and a lung-busting finish did the trick as usual. When Wally's big hand touched the tile 51.4 seconds after the start, he could add another A.A.U. championship to his collection of titles (fortnight ago, he was voted...
...small Colorado town. When the rich man of the town is proclaimed dead, the undertaker, being broke, is at first resigned to the fact that the costly funeral will go to a firm in Denver. Then, being drunk, he blithely kidnaps the corpse. This is merely the start of the festivities, which really get going when it turns out in the second act that the dead man is not quite dead...
...broke down the doors; 300 without tickets were turned away. Few of the 583 registrants missed a session; bankers and corporation heads began to clamor to get on the list of guest lecturers. Last week Smith had 1,100 women on the waiting list for his second course, to start in a few weeks...