Word: undertook
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...cause President Ford cited for these activities was "the effort being made by the Allende government to destroy opposition news media, both the writing press as well as the electronic press. And to destroy political parties." The Allende government never undertook this so-called effort to destroy the opposition in Chile, for such an effort would be inimical to both Allende's style and his ideology...
Died. Baldur von Schirach, 67, arrogant, monomaniacal leader of Hitler's youth movement in the 1930s; in Krov, West Germany. Son of a German aristocrat and an American mother, Von Schirach declared that "the lives of all German youths belong solely to Adolf Hitler," and undertook to train his charges ("physically, spiritually and morally") to follow the Führer unquestioningly. After the Anschluss (annexation of Austria), Hitler farmed him out to be Gauleiter (district leader) of Vienna, where he remained till war's end. At Nuremberg in 1946, Von Schirach was convicted of complicity in the murder...
...England; after a long illness; in Northamptonshire, England. Educated at Sandhurst, the Duke interrupted his military career to assume princely duties after his eldest brother Edward, Duke of Windsor, gave up his throne in 1936 to marry American Divorcee Wallis Simpson. For his brother King George VI, Gloucester undertook a spate of ceremonial chores and overseas good-will missions; he also indulged his passion for riding, fox hunting and polo. After serving as a high-ranking liaison officer in World War II, he spent a few years as an unpopular Governor General of Australia. Following the coronation of his niece...
From January 27, 1973, to August 15, 1973, for six and a half months after the signing of the Paris peace agreement on Vietnam, American planes blew up, bombed, killed, massacred, razed, leveled, in a word undertook systematic genocide against the Cambodian people. The intensity of the bombing was carried further than ever before during the American war of aggression in Indochina or in the whole history...
...first they looked at us, looked away and then acted like we had knocked the breath out of them." The speaker was George Wallace Jr., 22, a history major at Montgomery's Huntingdon College. With Evelyn Bradford, 18, a black student, he undertook a project for their social problems course. Posing as an engaged couple, they went apartment hunting in Montgomery. George reported to the class that three out of four landlords slammed the door in the couple's faces. Then he added: "I thought attitudes would be worse, but times are changing." Asked about...