Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accepted and respectable with age, was by now almost old hat. Harry Truman, in an offhand phrase that was his own, not his speechwriters', had called the new era the Fair Deal. The young bloods of the 81st Congress had not come to Washington, cheering and defiant, to start a revolution. They had come to consolidate one. As the Democrats heard it, what the people really said last November was that they wanted not new highways but a widening of the roads that Franklin Roosevelt had built...
Fourteenth in Line. On the opening day of Congress last week, Humphrey told Assistant Simms: "Be sure to brief me on protocol. I'm liable to start sliding down the bannisters." In the Senate chamber, he spotted his family sitting in the gallery, just to the right of the clock. When it came time for Senator Arthur Vandenberg to swear in Humphrey, 14th in line, Humphrey's father leaned forward, dabbed his eyes with a handkerchief. "He's going to be a great Senator," the father said afterward. "Maybe he's going to be something else...
...game Winthrop got off to a slow start, trailing 17 to 2 at one point in the first half. The game was tied when Dudley grabbed the winning point 30 seconds before the final whistle...
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...Crimson got off to a fast start in the first quarter and hold a 13-2 lead before six minutes of the game had elapsed. During the second period Tufts rallied weakly and by halftime it had whittled, the Harvard lead down to seven points...