Word: began
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Civil War had been transformed, by memory and new fortunes, into an event which, in retrospect, conferred virtue and glory upon all (Union) participants. At the Palmer House dinner, the menu, appropriately glorious, featured oysters, champagne, prairie chicken, buffalo, shrimp salad, hardtack and cigars. At 10:45 the speeches began. General U.S. Grant, the guest of honor, had just returned from a world tour. He expressed a slightly be fuddled surprise at being called upon to speak, and declared that Americans "are beginning to be regarded a little by other powers as we, in our vanity, have here tofore regarded...
Contrary to what the schedules may say, the women's basketball team began its 1979-80 season Wednesday with an exciting 83-78 win over Springfield College...
Karen Smith, another sophomore, who began the season as Holpuch's replacement, has been the beneficiary of the star's troubles. Playing for more than 20 minutes in the team's last five games, Smith has shown she can score from the inside against the zone, but like Holpuch, has struggled against man-to-man defenses...
Last night's contest began sluggishly, grinding to an 8-8 stalemate after three minutes. The Crimson starters then remembered that warm-ups were over and casually netted 14 unanswered points...
...discovery is insatiable. Of the three, she best expresses the frailty that foreruns her breakdown. When it comes, it's not an abrupt transition, but rather the natural product of a life of disorder. She alone seems to have grappled with all this before the play's action began...