Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prisoners as "The Meatball." The son of a California grocer, Kawakita was caught on a visit to Japan by World War II. He threw in his lot with the Japanese. As an interpreter in the prison camp at Oeyama, he taunted G.I. prisoners in their own ball-park English, took savage delight in tormenting them...
...Berlin debate started, Vishinsky took copious notes. Then he threw down his earphones and started to read a French Socialist paper. Then he started listening again. What he heard made him plainly uncomfortable...
...Like a Boid." Tunner's men show little evidence that they know they are engaged in one of the most dramatic military operations in history-and one of the most significant. The atmosphere of the airlift is tense, but not excited. TIME Correspondent Alfred Wright took a typical trip on the airlift on Oct. 1. His report...
...field they climbed into a C-54, one of three waiting in a queue. They checked over the plane, took a look at the cargo-flour and condensed soup...
...engines growled on and Baker, with nothing to do, took a box from the ledge above the instrument panel. He unwrapped it-more presents from grateful Germans: a little porcelain snail, some flowers, and a toy walrus made out of rat's fur. There was a note addressed: An unseren Blokade Flieger. Hensch could not read it, but he said: "Wait till my wife gets ahold of that. She'll start sending them food packages. She's always sending these Germans presents...