Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start the ball rolling by nominating General Charles de Gaulle...
...fortresses of segregation in troubled Little Rock last week were a onetime orphanage and two warehouses. In this slapped-together campus, the Little Rock Private School Corp. got classes started for 241 white seniors, promised 258 juniors that classes would start this week, boasted of a bankroll of $100,000. Negroes, naturally, are barred. See EDUCATION, The Long Lockout...
...campaign, off weeks ago to a slow-paced start, picked up speed and tore into its final week with drums thumping and speakers sprouting from every stump. Against gloomy predictions of voter apathy, U.S. registration reached an alltime nonpresidential-year high of an estimated 76,145,600 (v. 74,879,146 in 1954). Against Republican complaints about his above-it-all political leadership, President Eisenhower threw himself into the campaign with the toughest partisan speeches of his life. And against national and international trends that had threatened to turn the elections into a Democratic cakewalk to sweeping victory, came developments...
...conferences. From these meetings, plus Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor's separate talks with Nationalist military leaders came an understanding that when and if the Red Chinese agree to a "dependable" ceasefire, or at least refrain from acts of aggression for months in a row, Chiang will start gradually reducing his forces on the offshore islands...
...first time since the Amherst game, varsity coach Bruce Munro will be able to start his two best fullbacks, Lanny Keyes and Captain Floyd Moloy, today. Keyes has recovered from the knee injury that kept him out of the Wesleyan game, while Moloy has recovered somewhat from his sprained ankle that has sidelined him for most of the season...