Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used as a solvent in making rayon and rubber goods. When it had trundled three-fourths of a mile along the echoing, white-tiled, two-mile tube, one of the drums mysteriously exploded. Glaring gouts of flame and clouds of choking yellow fumes burst from the trailer; the driver took one horrified look in his rear-vision mirror, jumped out, ran and leaped on a truck passing in the other lane...
...dramatic victory of the Western Powers at Berlin, and in the catastrophic defeats in Asia, Greece's victories and defeats in the war with communism had been all but forgotten by the West. Yet it was in Greece that the U.S. first publicly took a stand in aggressive resistance to the Red tide. Van Fleet holds a vital flank position in the battle between communism and the West. Says he: "This war in Greece is a first-class war of international communism. It's a war of annihilation with no respect for the rules...
...managed to escape and joined 17,000 refugee children in homes organized by energetic Queen Fredericka. One half-starved, trembling boy at one children's camp said: 'They came at night . . . We hid in the cellar but they dragged us out. They shot father outside the village, took mother away, and left me there.' When I asked him if he would rather be in some other place than his camp, the boy said, 'Is there a place better than this...
Leverett's tennis team played off a forfeited match with the "champion" Winthrop squad and took over the championship itself by winning...
Dick Weiskopf should win both the 100 and the 220 for the Yardlings. Ace Yale hurdler Skip Hill will give Charlie Durakis, Jim McLaughlin, and Bill Gelck plenty of competition. Frank Efinger, who took third in 4:19 behind Gil Dodds in the BAA mile last year, is slated to put a dont in the Crimson's near perfect middle distance and mile record although Dave Cairns, Ron Berman, Dave Gregory and company will give the Yale star a run for his money...