Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five Planes. Their pleasure was shortlived. On the very day the Palestine ceasefire took effect, five British reconnaissance planes were shot down over Egypt by Israeli fighters and ground batteries. The planes, said the British, were operating from British bases in the Suez Canal Zone; they were under orders to keep an eye on the movements of the Israeli army into Egypt...
Would the British-Israeli clash disrupt the scheduled peace talk between Egypt and Israel? Mediator Bunche, as usual, was optimistic. So was his chief of staff, Brigadier General William E. Riley. As the two men took off from La Guardia Field this week for Rhodes, they were ready for the best and the worst. The Jews and the Egyptians, Bunche declared, would "have a hell of a time getting off the island" without reaching an agreement. "We have our fingers crossed," he added with a grin, "and we'd have our toes crossed too, if we could...
...every main intersection, the cops were knee-high in mounds of cheese, nuts, cake, fruit, beer, wine, liquors, and an occasional mug of shaving cream. One Roman police sergeant estimated that before Befana was done, each member of the 130-man traffic police force took home an average of four bottles of wine plus a pound of pasta...
...convert Jews and thus save them from exile. They burst into synagogues to preach the Christian gospel, but rabbis thundered back the teachings of Moses. Some Jews were converted. The majority preferred to leave their homes and their wealth behind. Many Jews removed tombstones from their cemeteries and took them along into exile. Their last ships left Spain the day before Columbus sailed for the New World...
...knows," exploded a member of the London County Council, "why we ever took it on in the first place. The blasted thing's been a target ever since." The blasted thing was London's gleaming statue of Eros, God of Love. Time after time, on nights of revelry in Piccadilly Circus, while lovers ogled each other beneath Eros' outstretched wings, the fire brigade has had to remove hats from the god's wreathed head or frilly unmentionables from his poised limbs...