Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems very reasonable to conclude that if we had entered the Viet "Jam war to win [Sept. 8], bombing Haiphong, the dams, bridges, plants and power houses right at the start, instead of waiting till they had assembled the most powerful combination of antiaircraft weapons yet seen, our losses of men and material would have been reduced and the war shortened. A war asininely fought is half lost. Our substitute for a quick victory has pleased no one except the Viet Cong...
...United Auto Workers walkout. And at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall for the first time in 35 years, the famed Rockettes, all 46 of them, refused to lift another shapely leg onstage until they were given a minimum of $140 a week (they now earn $99 to start...
...shortly after New York's Martin Marietta Corp. snapped up the rights to make a Kroyer-patented, skid-resistant highway surface called Syno-pal in the U.S., the Dane seemed downright bored. "To make an invention is an intoxication," said he. "But the rest -to make it work, start production and complete negotiations-is one big hangover...
There and then, Dr. Hartogs decided that he had stumbled on "a significant clue to the psychodynamics of our culture." According to his theory, the Chatterley decision set Vassar girls to start cussing like gamekeepers. Clearly, he met few Vassar girls before the decision. But now he hears from middleclass patients what he once heard only from ghetto types such as those he encounters as chief psychiatrist of the New York Detention House for Juvenile Delinquents...
...next years were filled with reverses. She took a job as a governess in Yorkshire to supplement the meager family income, was crushed to find herself treated as a common servant. Hoping to start her own school, she enrolled in a Brussels pensionnat to perfect her French and learn feminine "accomplishments"; instead, she broke her heart over the school's happily married director...