Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieuts. Stewart M. Greenbaum and Gordon Mohr, Army observers in Sunchon, narrowly escaped death. The rebel sergeant assigned to kill them was an old friend, who had drunk beer with them in their billet many times. He took the two officers into a field, fired into the ground and then led them to the Presbyterian Mission of Dr. John Curtis Crane, who was barricaded in with his wife and four other missionaries...
...Americans Out." Two days later, entering Yosu, the town where the revolt began, the government troops were much better behaved. The Communists' occupation of Yosu revealed the pattern they would like to impose on all South Korea. After arrest and murder of police and loyal leaders, the rebels took over all communications, banks, schools and food distribution. They established a "People's Committee" as the new government. The "People's Committee" announced: "Our two-point program: 1) to oppose, to the death the killing of our brothers, and 2) to get the Americans out of here...
...soon took to making sheep's eyes at a banker's beautiful daughter, and various serving girls. When they heard about the banker's daughter, the local party chieftains growled "Bourgeois behavior." Hertta was more worried about the servant girls. According to Helsinki gossip, it irked Hertta that so many working-class women should learn about the poor quality of Leino's lovemaking; that kind of talk could be bad for the party. Leino began to go into an eclipse anyway; he lost his job as Interior Minister, while Hertta kept getting more important -next...
Brought before the Circus Saints and Sinners as their 100th "fall guy," Socialist Presidential Candidate Norman Thomas took it from 1,200 guests, but he also dished it out. Handed a "diamond-studded" soapbox and a microphone (marked WIND), Thomas cracked: "I think I know why you gave me this-I'm the only man in America who can stand on a platform. In fact, I'm the only one with one to stand on." Introduced as "the man everyone loves and nobody votes for," the veteran of six campaigns admitted that he would "settle for more votes...
...Doris: she had never given up legal residence in the state after her first divorce (from Playboy-Diplomat Jimmy Cromwell), because she had never gotten around to selling the house she lived in. Had she made Rubirosa a cash settlement? No, they had agreed on that in advance: "He took his money and I took mine." What about a third marriage? Said Doris: "I hope I do not have another failure...