Word: task
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...counteract all this Communist-inspired abuse, all loyal Americans should pause for a few moments during the rush of their daily activities and send Judge Medina at least a postcard stating that they appreciate the difficulty and importance of his task...
Oriental Slave Dance. The life dedicated to the task of being a paragon of fashion for American women began 38 years ago, far from the U.S. and far from fashion. Lisa was born in the small Swedish town of Uddevalla (present pop. 22,675), the daughter of Dr. Samuel Bern-stone, a dentist. Lisa's father had changed his name from Anderson, which he considered too commonplace: there are 48 pages of Andersons in the Stockholm telephone directory. The Bernstones were always considered a little daring by the town: they liked to go swimming in the nude. Lisa still...
...plan to raise Manchuria's heavy industrial production. Output now is about 10% of the Japanese mark in 1944. The Communists hope to reach 40% by 1950's end. Proclaimed Kao Kang: "To fulfill this historical task, it is necessary to study seriously ... the Soviet technique in economic construction and methods of government...
This summer, Professor Jepsen went back to Wyoming with a nine-man task force which enthusiastically tore into the site with little awls and whisk brooms. Just below the surface they found a mass of man-mangled buffalo bones with the ends broken off (a handy way to get at the marrow). With the bones were arrowheads and spearheads made by ancient nomads whom diggers call Yuma...
...herald the September addition of Hearst's lurid American Weekly to its Sunday edition (circ. 255,002), the Cincinnati Enquirer assigned a task force of staffers to whip up equally lurid blurbs. When her turn came, Columnist Mildred Miller offered readers an enticing sample of the Weekly's wares-stories about female chastity ("Voltaire has declared [it] man's greatest invention"), birth control ("Motherhood in many cases is a wrong against society"), and religion ("After 2,000 years of religious teachings our jails are crowded beyond capacity...