Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Right from the start, they ran into difficulties. The Council of Europe, hailed at its founding in 1949 as "the first Parliament of Europe," echoed with platitudes but never with the thrust of debates that got anywhere. The notion of a "European army," with everyone in the same uniform, collapsed in mutual recriminations...
...Lack of Truth. From the start, investigation of the brutal slaughter at Hola seemed strangely halfhearted, often clouded by deceit and outright lies. Day after the incident, an official Nairobi communique said the prisoners had died "after drinking water from a water cart." When Coroner W. H. Goudie began his own inquiry, he got little assistance from witnesses who testified, including, in his opinion, Hola's white Camp Commandant Michael Sullivan, whose veracity he frankly doubted. The coroner's verdict was itself curiously negative: "It is impossible to determine beyond reasonable doubt which injuries on the deceased were...
Shed the Reds. Despite such outbursts, the British are convinced they can work with Lee-or at least that they have to. "I am a non-Communist," he proclaims, and before the campaign ended, speaking more moderately than at the start, he asserted that the worst threat to the new state of Singapore might come from Communist guerrillas trying to sneak over from the Malayan jungles. The British, who will retain control of Singapore's defenses and foreign affairs, are resigned to the political necessity of releasing the imprisoned P.A.P. Communist-liners. But Singapore is no longer so fearful...
...Shepard is hardly satisfied yet, this summer will deluge parents with letters urging them to keep children studying on their own for a head start next fall. "Why should a boy strive to overcome all obstacles and get a college degree and then have to run an elevator?" he asks. "Because we simply cannot base our possibilities on present limitations. They might be swept away tomorrow by the president of the company, and then it would be too late for preparation...
...varsity's 10 3/4 points with a second-place effort in the two-mile. Benamin went out to an early lead and was ahead by more than 30 yards after the first mile. But Penn State's Dick Engelbrink, the pre-race favorite, caught Benjamin at the start of the seventh lap and won easily after fighting off one last desperate challenge by the Crimson...