Word: took
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...first-and-10 from the Cornell 35, Hood rolled right and launched a five-yard pass that junior safety Aron Natale tipped up. Senior cornerback Glenn Jackson caught the loose ball and took it down the left sideline for a touchdown, giving Harvard a 16-6 lead...
...ensuing kickoff went to Big Red junior Justin Bush. Bush took it up the left sideline and cut back to the middle at the Cornell 40-yard line and went all the way for an 87-yard return...
After the disastrous Six-Day War in 1967, Hassan took charge of rebuilding Jordan's economy and settling Palestinian refugees. On economic issues, he is passionate and smart. "He likes to call people in to talk about tariff reduction," says a Western diplomat in Amman. "He's fascinated by details, whereas the king's eyes will glaze over." In 1972, Hassan established the Royal Scientific Society, a think tank that has produced some of Jordan's leading economic experts. A proponent of IMF-style adjustments, Hassan currently oversees a program of cautious reform, including price decontrols and bank liberalizations...
After Fahd's 1995 stroke, the King designated Abdullah as regent, then quickly took back his authority. But while the ailing Fahd officially remains monarch and continues to chair Cabinet meetings when his spirits are up, Abdullah is now running the country's day-to-day affairs, and his succession is unchallenged...
...stress his commitment to the long-standing Saudi-American partnership, and he supports other U.S. positions in the region. Although he speaks emotionally of Iraq's suffering under U.N. sanctions, he places the blame where Clinton does--squarely on Saddam Hussein. On the eve of his Washington visit, Abdullah took a step that delighted U.S. officials: he cut Saudi relations with the fundamentalist Taliban rulers in Afghanistan, who have given haven to suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. The reason, Abdullah explained, was that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar broke three promises he had made to Riyadh to expel or extradite...