Word: took
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...they are unavailable in other cases we read about every day--the Agent Orange case, the high-tension electric wire case, the artificial sweetener case, etc. In all, we are left in limbo as we seek to reach firm conclusions-and in the end the final judges of what took place are lawyers, journalists and the putative victims themselves...
...sets he stood up, and moving out next to his music stand, placed one foot in front on the other solemnly bowing over his lute several times. I got the impression that Mr. Henriksen didn't mind our applause at all, and at the end of the concert it took very little persuading to get him to play an encore, a charming Canarie (a dance originating in the Canary Islands) by Ennemond Gaultier...
Kazana, who took over as director in the fallof 1972, said in an interview this week that shespent much of her time scrambling for more money...
...Three Championship versus Yale and Princeton that took place last Saturday was probably the best preparation for what the Harvard men's and women's track teams will face this upcoming weekend at the Heptagonal Championship Meet...
...student activists have even tried to make that calculation: protesters occupying buildings today do so almost as if it's part of a public relations game. The headline "Students Occupy President's Office" no longer resonates with earthshaking, symbolic significance; it's a tired cliche. Administrators at Duke hardly took the students occupying their offices seriously, instead praising them for their cleanliness and studiousness. Everyone seems to have forgotten that, however routine and perfunctory taking over administration buildings may have become, symbolic action can become very real, very quickly. The potential for real damage, real violence, remains...