Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just been delivered by President Eisenhower," wrote David Lawrence, a conservative Democrat. "It probably was the first message at an inaugural ceremony directed in its entirety to all the peoples of the world as well as to the people of the U.S." Wrote Fair-Dealer Doris Fleeson: "From start to finish the President decisively repudiated the isolationist-nationalist sentiments with which his party was so long identified. The new Democratic Congress will have no choice but to uphold...
...Syrians said they would start the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s big pipeline pumping again only when the Israelis cleared out of Egypt. The Egyptians said they would start talking about a Suez Canal settlement if the Israelis would pull their remaining troops back from the Gaza strip and from the Egyptian forts commanding the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. The Israelis said they would withdraw their troops if the U.N. would guarantee that Egypt would not use Gaza for a raiding base again and the forts as a strongpoint for blockading Israel's access to its port...
Premier Adnan Menderes expressed dismay, moved in tanks, and arrested 4,300 rioters. But many observers were convinced that someone had organized the riots, at least at the start-perhaps to divert attention from Turkey's growing economic distress. They pointed out that the rioters arrived in well-organized squads, equipped with crowbars and iron claws to pry open steel shop shutters, and that the government did not stop the riot until around midnight, when it had shown signs of becoming a general protest against the regime. Menderes suspended five newspapers for charging the government with failure to stop...
...Mennella of the J. Fred Muggs Enterprises confirmed that the chimp's little eyes were fastened on an active future. "The NBC contract is re warding," he said, "but also constricting." Muggs has had so many offers, he added, that he hardly knows where to start raking in the big money. At NBC, where he started at $250 a week, Muggs now makes only $1,275 a week, pads it out with "sizable" income from products, such as shoes, toys and dolls, that use his name...
While the swarming excitement rises, the house-hunting scouts start making their reports. They do it by a stylized dance, just as honey scouts report their finds of nectar-yielding flowers. Dr. Lindauer marked bees that he found poking into crannies, and later watched them making their reports. The direction of their dancing told the other bees the direction of the prospective home site they had found. The vigor of their dance was proportionate to the site's desirability...