Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Countywide projects costing millions were already started: a new airport, new buildings, new highways, new bridges, new dams along the tributaries of the Allegheny and the Monongahela Rivers. R. K. Mellon himself had helped start them. Even facing the possibility of a paralyzing steel strike last week, Pittsburgh was a city of new hope. Pittsburgh was being rebuilt, restored, rejuvenated...
...hotel's glassed-in veranda overlooking the sparkling blue Rhine below, the Germans and the Allied commissioners toasted, in German champagne, the end of one era and the start of another...
...make a start, Oakeshott in 1946 got a promise of financial aid from the local school board and reserved 25 places at slightly reduced fees (?226) for boys from state-financed primary schools. But of the 40 examined, only three could pass the entrance exams, with their emphasis on Latin and Greek. In 1947, 25 were examined and none could pass: Winchester still had to draw its new boys from private primary schools. Last year again no qualified students were found among the state-school applicants. Oakeshott's proposed solution: better education in the government's schools. "Then...
...short, fall was off to a normal start...
Edith Piaf is not, strictly speaking, a champagne vendor. But whenever and wherever she sings, the corks start popping faster than ever. For, like no other, La Piaf's peculiarly vibrant voice is the voice of Paris-a voice that seems to summon misty memories of Montmartre for those who have been there, and thirsty fantasies for those who have...