Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no doubt, Mclntire insists, that the President undertook his last two terms because he was convinced that his country needed him, and that he scorned to conserve his own vitality by cutting down on his killing pace...
...were imprisoned. In the spring of 1941, when the services of Haganah were again required, these men were released and the British themselves took over the training of a large group of men to create an effective military force for secret commando operations. Men and women of the Palmach undertook many missions for the British during the war. Hannah Szenesh was but one of the many who gave their lives...
Secretaries Patterson and Forrestal, General Eisenhower and Admiral Nimitz, working under presidential pressure, had reached agreement on eight disputed points, remained deadlocked over four which Truman himself undertook to adjudicate. In forming a common front on the eight points, the Army had done most of the giving, the Navy most of the taking. There would be no Chief of Staff of all the armed forces (who, it had been feared, might become "a man on horseback"); the Joint Chiefs would remain the top military directors; there would be a Council of Common Defense and a National Security Resources Board...
This week Manhattan's Research Institute of America, owned and edited by lawyer Leo Cherne and advertising man Carl Hovgard, undertook to answer these questions. It issued a report to over 40,000 U.S. businessmen on the Communist Party in U.S. Labor...
Majority or Minority. To anxious Arabs and Jews this development held important corollaries which Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin candidly underlined in London. Said he: "We never undertook to establish a Jewish state [in Palestine], but we did undertake to establish a Jewish home, and that we must fulfill." Bevin had taken his stand on a literal interpretation of the 1917 Balfour Declaration ("The establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people . . ."). Said an Arab spokesman in Cairo: "We are happy, but we can't afford to show...