Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisis, the shrillest pitch of crisis in its history, the U.N. focused the world's attention. The measure of its weakness was that U.N. could not even protect its own mediator, Count Bernadotte, from terrorist murder. The measure of its strength was that every nation, including Russia, took U.N. seriously enough to maneuver vigorously to win its approval or, at least, to evade its disapproval...
...evening of the murder, 13-year-old Bertil Bernadotte switched on the radio at Dragongärden. That is how he heard the news. He ran to his mother, who took the news with outward calm; she had feared for weeks that her husband would be killed. Quietly she went to call her elder son, who was away at school. Soon the whole family assembled. King Gustav heard of his nephew's death as he was returning from his summer vacation; the old King wept. In Paris, U.N. delegates heard the news as they were getting ready for this...
...Israel there was general fear that Bernadotte's murder would bring even more violence. Arabs were reported massing troops; Israeli forces took up battle positions. But in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, two days after the murder, life seemed normal. "We were more worried about Lord Moyne's assassination," said one Israeli. "But the world soon forgot it, and other incidents like it won our state...
Generally happy about the new President, Ecuadorians waited patiently to see what would happen when his energy took hold of the nation's difficult economic problems. "I don't remember a time," said a veteran Quito newsman, "when I have seen such tranquillity in the country...
Lana Turner, just back from a four-month European honeymoon with third husband Bob Topping, telephoned her studio that she had "never been so relaxed and happy." She was going to have a baby (her second, Bob's third) "next April or May." The studio took a deep breath ("She was very obliging," admitted a spokesman. "She called as soon as she was halfway sure"), and started looking around for someone else to play Lana's next scheduled role: Madame Bovary...