Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week at Coltishall airfield in Norfolk, Blackie, a prize tercel (male falcon), his sister Collette and two other lady falcons, Odette and Isolde, were hard at work at new peacetime jobs. Eight other falcons were busy at Driffield in Yorkshire. Each day a thickly gloved trainer took them out on the field and gingerly removed their hoods. Then (in falconer's lingo) "they rang up from the fist, attained their pitch at 1,000 or more feet up, waited on until the game was served to them," and swooped to the kill at speeds up to 300 m.p.h...
During all the months that followed, Communist Politis was kept in solitary confinemen, permitted to speak to no one, even while he was hospitalzed. Recently he was brought into the office of the Security Police and confronted with toga. He took one look at her and said, "Remove her from the room. I'll talk...
...encourage them, the South Korean army energetically set about crushing the revolt. It had begun one morning before dawn, when 40 Communist members of a brigade stationed in the far southern port of Yosu shot their officers and bullied their sleepy comrades into attacking the city police station. They took over all of Yosu, then headed north, picking up confused recruits along the way. By the time they reached Sunchon, a city of 75,000, their force had grown to around...
...might also have sent (he didn't) a cable of thanks to the U.N. in Paris. The Security Council's first cease-fire cable to the Israeli government was ambiguous; it read like a suggestion rather than an order. Ben-Gurion and his ministers took a leisurely day and a half and four cabinet sessions to "study" the document and take full advantage of their luck. By the time U.N. got around to sending a clear cease-fire order, Beersheba had fallen and the control of the Negeb desert was solidly in Israeli hands...
Next day Dr. Gaona put on a private show that aficionados were sorry they missed. To learn why one of Sunday's bulls had been rejected by the fighters as too tame, Dr. Gaona took a muleta, went into the ring with the bull. The bull promptly charged, hooked him, tossed him twice into the air. He punctured Dr. Gaona's natty pants and gored him. Aficionados read the details later in their papers: a wound four centimeters deep by seven long in the right cheek rear, another six centimeters long by four deep in the left cheek...