Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heavier emphasis on long-range economic development. For a start in that direction, the report puts forward the novel suggestion that aid programs be presented to each Congress, i.e., every two years, instead of to each session...
...somewhat surprising in a man whose political handbook ever since his student days in France has been a volume called The Technique of the Coup d'Etat. But the real shocker came when the Thai strongman informed his countrymen that they were free to organize political parties and start campaigning for the 1957 parliamentary elections...
...Queen Elizabeth II. Noting that officials of the U.S. embassy have been criticized for concentrating on London to the rest of the country's loss, London's Daily Telegraph hoped that "Jock" Whitney, a millionaire with a real zest for getting around, would bring a "new start in this respect." The Telegraph also retrospectively hailed "the new Ambassador's firm break with the more absurd social conventions of New York society." In Tokyo, meanwhile, Career Diplomat Douglas MacArthur II, bearer of a name that still inspires respect in Japan, rode in an imperial household coach...
Ability to detect hostile missiles at the start of their flights will be an important advantage in the uneasy world of the future when each major nation has the power to blast its enemies by long-range rocketry. When the missiles plunge down through the atmosphere, they can be detected for only a few last minutes of flight, and this leaves little time for counteraction. But if a satellite sees them blasting off deep in enemy territory, the home team has a better chance to hit them with counter-missiles before they return to earth...
...impossible) for a boy and a girl to be alone together in an intimate and exclusive companionship for any length of time without serious sin. And she has seen the tragic pattern shaping up Saturday night after Saturday night in parish churches across the country; these boys and girls start making bad confessions, then no confessions, followed by no sacraments, no Mass, finally no faith...