Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elis had been counting on a win in the opening medley relay to start them to another victory. Hawkins placed freestyler Bill Zentgraf in the weak breaststroke position, and backstroker Eisenbrey swam freestyle, as the Yardlings won the race in 3:58.0, taking a full 8.7 seconds off the freshman record set by the regular medley relay team earlier in the season...
...statesman and diplomatic leader, Ike warned the Russians in the strongest terms he has yet used that if they start fooling around with the U.S.'s treaty rights of access to West Berlin, with any little incidents or so-called brush wars, they are only fooling themselves, for they are fooling around with...
...when our stomachs start to grumble...
...Quake. It was no accident that this repressive law was modified in the year of the great Tokyo earthquake. A current Japanese joke says it took an earthquake to start the emancipation of women, and the atom bomb to set it going again. The 1923 temblor destroyed 60% of the city, killed 143,000 people and ruined many of Tokyo's upper and middle classes. In its aftermath, the educated daughters of these families (education for women dates from the Meiji Restoration in the 19th century) discarded their kimonos, bobbed their hair, donned Western dress and became sales clerks...
Though Macao is no stranger to refugees, never had so many-6,000 men, women and children-come at one time. Reason: a report that the Reds were about to start fishing communes, to match the hated land communes. To lure the fishermen back, Peking promised that the fishermen would still be able to keep up to 40% of their catch. The Communists also put pressure on Macao fish merchants not to buy from the refugees. Both pressure and promise failed. In desperation, some fishermen tried eking out a living with odd jobs ashore, or by begging in the streets...