Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation that started and lost two world wars last week undertook to make good its huge international debts, that come in the wake of wars. In a "financial peace treaty" signed in London with 18 nations, bustling West Germany assured creditors in 30 non-Communist lands that their claims will be honored. Germany pledged to pay out $3.27 billion in the next 35 years. Half the total represents worldwide German debts that started mounting up in 1918, and were finally repudiated by Hitler. American private investors who bought German bonds under the Dawes and Young Plans have been promised...
...conduct of the children necessitated a readjustment of his clothes, or whether appellant (Claus) merely desired to stop the same, is not clear; but he says that, because of this conduct of the children, he went into a room in the rear part of the store and there he undertook to light a cigarette. He...struck the match and started to light his cigarette, and (his) beard...caught fire, and appellant suffered a serious injury to his face and hands...
Alpert stated that Harvard, as an average-sized college, has a potential of 4,000 pints. He pointed out that a large percentage of the Red Cross's demand would be met if even 20 colleges of similar size undertook a comparable campaign...
Able, chubby Envoy Abba Eban got on the phone to Albert Einstein in Princeton, N.J. Einstein, 73 years old, a naturalized U.S. citizen, listened, paused, and then gave his regretful no. The next day he wrote to Eban that he was deeply touched by the Israeli offer, but never undertook functions he could not fill to his satisfaction. He liked studying the physical world, he added, but, "I have neither the natural ability nor the experience to deal with human beings...
...Tausig, or Bach-Bülow. "They put Bach, Mozart, Handel back on the loom," Landowska buzzed in her book Music of the Past. "And after calumniating the greatest masterpieces, they dare couple their obscure names with those of our supreme masters . . . What would sculptors say if a mason undertook to cut away some marble from the Venus de Milo to give her a wasp waist, or if one tried to twist Apollo's nose in order to give him more character?" The first thing to do was to remove the overstuffed romantic upholstery from the original music...