Word: task
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleek sister moved in through the icy, spume-laced seas to her side. It was a deadly task. Both vessels were rolling wildly and constantly awash, and their hulls were as bare of hand holds as two whale's backs. A rubber boat set out from the Cochino, lost a man in the enormous waves...
...finished the complicated job of making cortisone from yams, but researchers could start trying at once. No costly task force (like the one sent to Africa to gather Strophanthus seeds) is needed to get the yams. Sometimes weighing 30 pounds, they grow in many parts of Mexico and Central America...
Take a Small Box. What the bee hunter needs first of all, says Edgell, is a small, double-chambered, glass-windowed box with a hinged lid ("One's first task is to catch a bee"). In the box he places an empty honeycomb which he fills with sugar syrup just before he goes into action...
...Moscow note also suggested that it was the task "of healthy forces" inside Yugoslavia's Communist Party to "remove" the party's "present leaders...
...also plans to direct attention to Germany's ten million refugees from behind the Iron Curtain in the hope that underpopulated Australia may consider them for immigration. "I consider it the task of the church," he says, "to oil the hinges on the doors between countries so that these doors may open more easily...