Sentence:  Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state , but when the army <WSD>took</WSD> over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession