Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Samaritan. In Philadelphia, a stranger stopped to help Walter Bowe push his stalled car, suggested that he work the starter while Bowe pushed, managed to start the motor, disappeared with...
...unhealthy ambition of an intellectual . . . The sentence is absolutely just and . . . necessary in the struggle against the Anglo-American imperialists." Bulgaria's people were not told of Kostov's execution, nor did they hear of his alleged message from the gallows, until just before the start of their national elections last Sunday. The news apparently put the voters into the proper frame of mind. For the Red Fatherland Front slate (there was no other slate), 4,500,000, or almost 100%, voted a Russian...
...Whitney announced it would soon jettison its fine collection of 19th Century art (worth perhaps $250,000), use the proceeds to buy more & more paintings like those in the current show. For the price of such a proven masterpiece as Thomas Eakins' The Biglen Brothers Ready to Start the Race, the Whitney could probably pick up the latest Koerner, and the latest Kantor, Gatch and Levine...
...salesman, Frank Baxter did not start out to be a teacher at all. He began as a waterboy in Philadelphia's Hammerstein opera house (he carried glasses of water to singers in the wings), later became a clerk and bookkeeper for a manufacturing company...
...Early Start. In Amarillo, Texas, a seven-year-old culprit was hauled into juvenile court for stealing $5 and seven tricycles. In Franklin, La., a 14-year-old ninth-grader was arrested for cashing two checks she had made out as an arithmetic assignment. In Roanoke, Va., Sherman Lovelace, facing charges of illegally wearing a Navy uniform and possessing an Army discharge, was convicted of polygamy (three wives...