Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matter of Health. The two statesmen did not feel as chipper as they looked. For one thing, their personal health was not good. Just back from a Swiss resort where he had been treated for a digestive ailment, Cripps took austere vegetarian meals at a small table in the ship's dining room. As a fellow sufferer under doctor's orders, Bevin dieted in his cabin-nothing but boiled fish, poultry, milk puddings, custards. Between meals they wrestled together with the bigger problem of Britain's economic health...
...southwesterly winds to die down. The winds did not deter a hefty, partially crippled, 34-year-old Belgian mining machine manufacturer named Fernand du Moulin. Around 10 o'clock one night last week Fernand left a champagne party given by his wife, anointed himself with grease and took to the choppy waters off France's Cap Gris Nez. He struck out with a powerful breast stroke, stopping now & then to tread water and consume 20 fortifying pints of soup and coffee doled out by a friend in a fishing boat. En route, carrier pigeons released by the escort...
...There was a time when Britain was in the exporting end of the oyster trade. Julius Caesar took English oysters with him back to Rome, where Historian Gaius Sallust sourly commented: "The poor Britons, there, is some good in them after all; they produce an oyster...
...took on board a couple of bottles of wine and a siphon. A slender young boy joined us. "Who is he?" I inquired. "Son," said Tito laconically. Aleksander, or Misa as everyone calls him, is a skinny child with big wide eyes. Later, before I took their picture, the dictator took a comb and smoothed down the boy's unruly hair...
Last May 17,000 police made an exhaustive beat of Giuliano's mountain hideout. He slipped through the net (rumor said by joining a bicycle race that was passing through the area) and took a lonesome vacation in the mountain villages on the lower slopes, near Palermo. Police had already arrested his sisters Mariannina and Giuseppina; his mother is locked up on charges of extortion. The dragnet picked up several of his aides...