Word: partook
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According to Bahadu’s friends, not only did he plan the parties, but he also partook in them, earning a reputation as one of the best known people on campus...
...creed had no place for free will or human rights, let alone separation of mosque and state. Wahhab partook of a historically typical hostility toward Christians and Jews. But he was less focused on infidels than he was inward-looking and obsessed with orthodoxy: he wrote that jihad should be postponed until the Islamic house was in order. He was more combative regarding his brethren. Although Muslims are forbidden to wage holy war against one another, Khaled Abou El Fadl, an expert in Islamic law at Yale University, says Wahhabis "argued that Muslims guilty of [unorthodoxy] could and should...
Still, the team did not lose heart, knowing that a better day lay ahead on the second day of competition. On the first day, only 12 of the Crimson’s swimmers partook while other schools fielded full 15-woman efforts...
...process will apply only to civilians who partook in the terror. The masterminds will be tried in a U.N.-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal in neighboring Tanzania...
...searching for larger game to hunt. He found it in the turmoil of the 1960s, with the assassinations of the two Kennedys and Martin Luther King Jr. and the drama of the civil rights struggle. "I lived through the '60s, with these great events roiling around me. I never partook, but I always felt there were private stories underneath the public events." In 1995 he published American Tabloid, his inimitable take on what led up to the shooting of John F. Kennedy in Dallas. Its sequel, The Cold Six Thousand, takes the sordid tale of gangsters, pols, G-men, Cuban...