Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then undertook to cross the Ward case off the books, with permission to quote. Said he: "If the election shows that the union does not have a majority of the employes, that will end the case. On the other hand, if the election shows that the union has a majority, then the management has declared that it is willing to continue its contract and that will end the case...
...with Dr. Temple in a series of endorsements, Dr. Garbett became almost as completely identified with Malvern as was Dr. Temple. Besides, his whole ecclesiastical life had been the practice of what Malvern preached. When Dr. Temple became Archbishop of Canterbury, England's No. 1 primate, Dr. Garbett undertook the heavy burden of the Archbishopric of York, chiefly to assist Dr. Temple in carrying out the Malvern program...
Stilwell's Gambit. With the crumbs tossed to him by China, the U.S. and Britain-two divisions of Chinese troops which he had trained from the ground up, plus Merrill's U.S. Marauders and the able assistance of Wingate's British Commandos -General Stilwell undertook to reconquer north Burma from the Japanese...
...painters to back the attack. Last January the aroused artists formed a Continental Committee of Art for Victory, planned a series of propaganda tours. Argentina's Antonio Berni would tour the east coast of South America. Chile's Antonio Quintana would tour Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay. Siqueiros undertook a modest swing through Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Cuba, Mexico...
...Captain Jack undertook to save Bedford Village and the Pennsylvania frontier. His forces: seven men. His strategy: to attack, surprise, ambush the Indian war parties over as great a territory as possible to give the impression his seven men were a battalion. As savage as the savages, the seven almost succeeded...