Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-way squeeze on Russia: the airlift, the Marshall Plan, the upcoming $15 billion new arms budget, the proposed North Atlantic security pact. The best "educated guess" that his advisers could make was that Harry Truman, all on his own, was just trying a little propaganda campaign to start a little mutual distrust in the Politburo...
...Louis, trust officers wondered what to do with $250,000 left by Physician Francis L. Stuever "to promote the cause of prohibition in the United States, Germany and Austria." Said one worried banker: "An organization in Washington, the International Reform Federation, claims it is ready to start working for prohibition in Germany and Austria. We don't know if they can even...
...when Celeste di Porto was a quiet, intent little girl. Like other children in the ghetto, she grew up in garbage-strewn alleys, amid the antique squalor that sometimes breeds keen wits. She did well in school and read much. Said her aunt last week: "My God, once they start reading, it's all over...
Students disliked him from the start. He was a mousy but stubborn man who regarded music, athletics and other extracurricular activities as worthless educational frills. When the school board chose him as superintendent and principal of the Twinsburg township school in northeastern Ohio, some parents protested. But Glen L. Powell, 51-the town's fourth superintendent in six years-was just the sort of man old-fashioned Twinsburgers on the school board had been looking...
...Russians got a special plum in their slice of the German capital-the world-famous, 139-year-old University of Berlin. Ever since the city was divided among the conquerors, non-Communist students and teachers have been trying to start a new university in the western sectors. Last week they had it. Its name: the Free University of Berlin...