Word: retook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relatives and friends. Others huddled dazedly over fires in the open fields. A driving rain and heavy winds made the night miserable, and morning brought two more earth tremors. El Marj had lived through bombing and battles during World War II as British and Axis forces took and retook the town. But the quake flattened El Marj as war never did. Rescue workers said that not a single house remained habitable, and the Libyan Red Crescent appealed for help to the International Red Cross...
Hilliard's program has already shown striking successes. Last year a local garment factory tested 25 women on relief for jobs as power-sewing-machine operators. All flunked, many unable to even decipher the application blank. After attending classes for six months, they retook the test; 18 passed. Nine months ago. a cab company rejected five reliefers as drivers because they could not fill out trip sheets. Last week, after Hilliard's treatment, all five were hired; one man earned $20 his first...