Word: began
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Nature's ill-tempered attack began in a soft and sneaky way with warm rains on the Sierra Nevada Mountains. But rain melted snow, snow fed creek, creek swelled river, and before a husband could stagger upstairs with the best of the furniture, there was swirling water in thousands of parlors in California and Nevada...
...Park, there were people who attached more importance to the color of a man's skin than to his achievements. The town's only two Negro families lived in the northern section. Julian paid $34,000 for an ornate 15-room house in Chicago Avenue neighborhood, and began spending $8,000 more for landscaping and improvements, intending to move his wife and two children in by Christmas. When the news got out, the water commissioner refused to turn on the water until the Julians threatened to go to court. Anonymous telephone callers made threats...
...Workmen began digging up the sidewalk in front of the Varsity Liquor Store yesterday, to make way for the foundation of a police kiosk for the Square. The new concrete box will rise 18 feet from the street and be equipped with loudspeakers, a heater, and windshield wipers...
...regulations which Associate Dean Watson handed to the Student Council Monday for approval first began to take form March 1948 when Watson announced that his office would codify the rules it was applying to student groups...
...page set of rules resulted in a running fight between overwrought undergraduates, the council, and the Dean's Office during March and May. Besides holding meetings of extra-curricular lead- ers to draft a less complicated code, many students also began clamoring for the abolition of the Student Council...