"We started up at 5 a.m. as if there was a strike, and we did carry a few people," said Thomas Paladino, who helped to organize the plan for the New York Waterway ferry company.
A women's self-defense class was started up at the gym.
When I was a child growing up on the banks of the Meenachal river, I used to think the sound of crickets – which always started up at twilight – was the sound of stars revving up, getting ready to shine.
We were able to talk at a normal conversational level, that is until celebratory laughter and shouting started up at a nearby table occupied by a group of eight.
From that point in the afternoon onward, as the second-stage bands wound down, and the main stage started up at 4, every band seemed radically different from the last.
Who can say what will one day become a Google?' So is the 33-year-old Chinese pianist, who started up at the age of two after seeing a Tom and Jerry cartoon featuring Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No 2, now the Google of the piano?
