Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government relies on the police, most of whose key officials are hated because they originally worked for Japan. The country is under modified martial law, and there are frequent arbitrary arrests. Since the government took over from U.S. military authorities last August, it has closed 16 newspapers and magazines. The latest was the Seoul Shin Mun, the country's largest newspaper. A government spokesman explained that Shin Mun had "reprinted only 40% of official releases in the past four months and is therefore clearly anti-government...
Four minutes after the report, plane 2023 plowed into Cambirela Peak in the foothills of the Serra da Boa Vista. It took rescue parties 27 hours to reach the isolated site of the crash. All 28 aboard were dead. It was the worst air disaster in Brazilian history...
...child"), Landowska has given up touring. In the last few years, she has also given up the idea of returning to her once-famed Ecole de Musique Ancienne at picturesque Saint-Leu-La-Forêt near Paris, from which she fled in 1940 before the Nazis took over...
...Middlecoff was Sam Snead. The grapevine buzzed that Snead was hot. "He's burning up that last nine," snapped Middlecoff nervously. "I'm betting I won't win. I'll bet you $10 right now that Snead ties me or beats me." Somebody took...
...last week against a combined Princeton-Cornell team, Britain's Bannister demonstrated the casual approach. In the mile, he loped along with a nine-foot stride. When he decided to take over, he spurted to the front. In characteristic English fashion he glanced over his shoulder, once almost took a header running too close to the track's concrete curb-and still won in 4:11.1. It was the second-fastest mile run on U.S. cinders this year...