Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Start at the front, naturally, and read it through-like any normal person...
...Hoffman declared, would be $4,280,000,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1. This was $730 million less than the $5,010,000,000 spent in ECA's first twelve months of operation ending April 1. For the three-month gap from April 1 to the start of the new fiscal year on July i, Hoffman asked an additional $1,150,000,000. These figures did not include military aid to Greece and Turkey, nor aid to China, which is now on a "day-to-day" basis; nor did they include whatever the U.S. would spend...
...party, we try to go back to the 19th Century, or even to the 1920s, you can bury the Republican Party as the deadest pigeon in the country . . . What we ought to do is to stop bellyaching about the past . . . and start making it everlastingly clear to the country where we stand...
Inauspicious Start. As if to show that Markos the soldier would not be missed, loannidies last week launched a heavy attack on the town of Florina. The rebels' force of 4,000 was said to be the biggest they had sent against any town in this war. For a change, the government forces were not caught napping; the guerrillas were beaten off with severe losses. It was not an auspicious start for Uncle John...
...start, Pravda named nine critics who had made the mistake of criticizing the kind of calendar-art-heavily realistic pictures of Red politicians and soldiers in action-that Soviet bigwigs think uplifting. Some critics, it seemed, had dared to see a little merit in paintings done outside the Russian sphere, which "serve the selfish interests of the bourgeoisie, catering to their decadent and perverted tastes." And a brave or venturesome man named Byeskin had even found fault with a picture by one Yar-Kravchenko entitled Gorky Reads to Comrades Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov His Story, "Girl and Death", which subsequently...