Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems to me that the interservice wrangling is a healthy democratic sign. We taxpayers should be pleased that our Armed Forces are fighting for the privilege of giving us what they think is the best possible protection. We will have to start worrying about defense ourselves when the branches of our Armed Forces stop worrying...
...growing body of U.S. opinion answers, "Soon." U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder is about to leave for Europe in a mood to ask European financial authorities why general devaluation, beginning with the pound, should not start...
...Tsung-nan, from the stronghold of Sian (see map). The way to rich Szechuan province and its famed capital Chungking seemed open. Instead, Communist Peng's men, thrusting on from Sian, rushed into a trap; it was the Chinese Red army's first defeat since the start of their all-out offensive...
...When I wandered up, a crowd encircled me. One bespectacled youth poked a pugnacious finger in my collar and said: 'Will you tell your American friends that we reject the plans of murderer Truman and American imperialists to start another war so they can use cheap soldiers of India to crush Soviet democracy?' Breathlessly he spun out the usual cliches, and wound up: 'Nehru is a Fascist reactionary who smokes cigarettes with Churchill and offers British warmongers the sweet mangoes and sweet tongues of India...
...mother -will start to worry...