Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Armed Might. In Highland Park, Mich., police arrested Francis Vivian and took away his arsenal: a long-bladed knife, a blackjack, bow & arrows...
...flies off the horses' big rumps while his old man did the shoeing. Little Joe never actually worked at his father's trade. But he grew up to have his old man's squat build. And in the politician's trade, which Joe Martin took up, he worked in the manner of a blacksmith - a nail here, a nail there, working most of the time close to the ground...
...signed last week was an extra item of $615 million to be spent in starting to build a 58-group Air Force. On this subject Harry Truman had been sharp and clear: he wanted the Air Force held to 48 groups. So with a brisk bit of juggling, he took what he wanted of the bill and left the rest...
...First he took on Czechoslovakia for charging three U.S. embassy staff members with espionage, and jailing one of them. These incidents and charges, said Acheson sternly, were "obviously trumped up in order to intimidate further the local population . . . This government has sufficient knowledge of the police methods and practices employed by the present regime in Czechoslovakia to know how much credence should be placed in 'confessions' and 'irrefutable proof produced in cases of this kind...
Then he turned to Communist China as calmly as he turned the pages in the looseleaf notebook before him. The department took a "serious view," he said, of the "flimsy pretext used by the local authorities" to prevent the homecoming of General Robert B. Soule, the U.S. military attache. "The U.S. Government does not countenance negotiations under duress and will not authorize its representatives in China to submit to such pressure...