Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reselling the Socialist Party. He seems to have no ideas of how to start, and the left-wingers complicated his task last week by electing Nenni as the leader of the party group in the Italian Assembly...
When he hitched to Skagway at the start of the Klondike rush of '97, Mike was a strapping, redheaded six-footer from the backwoods of Quebec. He was handy with his fists and his feet, could kick off the bar in the hitch-and-kick* at eight feet. He put together a nondescript dog team, began mushing supplies for the sourdoughs. He blazed a 1,400 mile dog-team trail from Dawson to Nome. He toted a piano on his back up the 1,200 ft. of Chilkoot Pass. With a corpse as cargo, he mushed over the mountains...
...depths of the depression he had sold apples on a Manhattan street corner. Later he returned to the U.S. as his country's ambassador. Now he plans to see bankers as well as doctors, sound them out for some new loans to get his administration started. Another possibility: persuading his friend Nelson Rockefeller to start a development corporation in Ecuador like his Basic Economy Corporation in Venezuela...
...Bustamante cold-shouldered an Aprista delegation that called to offer him support. Instead, after a scuffle a few days later in Lima's market place, his police arrested 15 men, four of them La Tribuna staffers, and charged them with trying to start a food riot. Intent on his middle way, Bustamante wanted to make clear that he would be just as tough with Apristas as he had been with right-wing plotters...
...After all, if he is ever to mature as a satirist, he must stop tickling the public's toes, and start cutting its throats...