Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rudiger Altmann's fantasy-and the excitement it caused-were symptomatic of the buoyant mood on both sides of the Wall, and a new attitude toward reunification. Thanks to the relaxation of cold-war tensions, Germans today are nursing a growing though still amorphous hope that a start toward a peaceful solution to the problem of a divided Germany may now be found. Few have the illusion that the frozen ice of Central Europe can be broken any time soon. Explains Altmann: "Reunification has no great diplomatic chance. It will become possible only if we succeed in creating...
...Iran a $750 million natural-gas pipeline, Turkey a $200 million, seven-factory industrial complex, and sent Algeria a squadron of MIG-21s and two tank battalions. Iraq was promised an atomic reactor, given three squadrons of MIG-21s. Syria got a Soviet pledge of $150 million for a start on a Euphrates River dam that could prove even larger than Aswan, plus Soviet aid in rebuilding its railways and prospecting for Syrian oil. Nasser himself received four MIG squadrons, six submarines and a school of destroyers...
...direction of Leverett Towers. He walks into his house, patting the dog in the process. "Bye, Sparky," he says closing the door (which, incidentally, he rescued from an old Beacon Hill mansion because it was such a "lovely door"), then winks with his gaminlike eyes and says, "Watch him start barking again." He does. Mrs. Murphy, the housekeeper, is in a tizzy. There's the matter of his schedule book and then she is so pleased that he has given her a signed copy of his book...
...education can never be, for years to come, more than a combination of the haphazard steps that created it. If Harvard is going to have a valuable program in the arts, whether one of negligible, modest, or gigantic size, some body of the Faculty, is going to have to start planning...
Pardee turned the ankle half an hour before the start of Sunday's meet and didn't even warm up to make sure of his footwork before the broad jump...