Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purges, occupation policy switched to a new phase-democratization and economic revival. But Russian veto of a peace treaty blocked MacArthur's plan to restore Japanese trade. U.S. trustbusters were still locked in stalemate with the Zaibatsu. Last summer the U.S. State Department intervened. Top Planner George Kennan took a long look at Japan. He recommended a basic change in policy, aimed at Japan's self-government, self-respect and self-support. Last December, a firm economic directive was finally drafted for MacArthur...
Helped by a fresh wind and a strong ground swell, the Magdalena slowly worked herself off her perch. Next morning, tugs took her in tow. As the crippled ship wallowed into the harbor, Rio stopped work. From the seawalls, from the windows of downtown office skyscrapers, all along the city's 20 miles of beaches, cariocas gaped. None anticipated the climax...
Claire Chennault, wartime skipper of the Flying Tigers, back home with his Chinese bride and three-month-old daughter for a rest and a couple of congressional hearings on China, took a fighter's view of the whole situation: "I have seen it a lot worse for us in China and the Pacific than even it is now, and I have seen us turn it around and win . . . There are millions and millions of Chinese who don't like Communism and will fight...
Said Boysen: "I went on the field to pat Jackie Robinson on the back. Suddenly I got hit from behind. I fell down . . . I saw Durocher kick me in the stomach . . . Then the fans took me outside near a hot-dog stand when I passed...
...accounts of the short, sharp encounter seemed to tally. Most of the 24,069 fans didn't even see it. Sportwriters, radio announcers and TV took a quick look, dismissed it casually as another cap-snatching caper of the kind that is a common occurrence at the Polo Grounds. But not Fred Boysen. He cried out for a doctor, was taxied to a hospital. There, according to an attendant, he achieved "a couple of really impressive faints." In less time than it takes to beat out a bunt, a lawyer was at his bedside, making talk of a damage...