Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slick-haired Reporter Staktopoulos, 36-year-old stringer for Reuters news agency. A graduate of Communist training schools, he had been ordered to renounce the party publicly two years ago, and pose as a reformed Red. On the night of May 8, under party orders, he said, he took Polk to a waterfront restaurant in Salonika, to wait for a dory that would start the correspondent on his journey to see Guerrilla Chieftain Markos Vafiades...
Butterflies & Sibling. Dr. Will takes his own medicine. True, he smokes two packs of Chesterfields a day, a quantity that some psychiatrists might consider a mildly alarming nervous habit. But since it is sound psychiatry to have a wholesome hobby, Dr. Will goes in heavily for hobbies. When he took a week off last August, he spent 14 hours a day on his stamp collection. He collects butterflies and goes on bird walks (his only form of exercise). He also plays the organ and piano...
...transatlantic trip didn't do them any good. The plane, buffeted by headwinds, had to detour by way of Iceland. Nathoo took the pitching & tossing like a seasoned air traveler (which he isn't) but Bayeux got panicky and tried to kick his way out of the airplane. Despite all his armor (a helmet, knee guards and heavy leg bandages), by the time he was unloaded in New York Bayeux was bruised and scratched. Four days later, the two horses paraded postward at Belmont Park to take their shot at Citation in the $100,000 Gold...
When the American Army drove the Germans out of Italy in 1945, it took among other prisoners Ezra Pound, expatriate poet, radio propagandist for Mussolini and self-made pundit who thought Hitler a "martyr" comparable to Joan of Arc. After a short stay in a prison camp near Pisa, where he continued to write poetry, the aging (63), rheumy-eyed poet was brought back to the U.S. to face treason charges. The case never came to trial; instead he was declared insane, and still languishes in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington...
...took one heliuva good football game to set the fuse. Then the firecracker burst brilliantly, violently, and briefly. Between halves, the near-nude Indian cheerleaders led their partisans out of the stands to set up a tepoe. A few of the locals offered half-hearted opposition, which resulted in a disruption of the band formations and little else...