Word: take
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...having trouble finishing off plays, and despite its success in controlling play, was able to put only seven other shots on Groh. St. Nick's was much improved over its horrible showing at Cambridge last year, and it came to Watson Rink unbeaten in three contests. It did not take long for Harvard to realize that it was in for a hockey game...
...frame home near the beach at Gulfport, Miss., and he and his wife now live in a leased trailer on their hurricane-stripped lot. His insurance company offered to pay only 25% of his claim, says Ryals, so he has hired a lawyer to sue for more. That may take considerable time, and in the interim the lender is threatening to foreclose the mortgage that covered his lot and vanished home...
...Arouet on Nov. 22, 1694-his father quite possibly not his mother's husband-Voltaire soon decided* that a man's main choice in life was to play the hammer or the anvil. Zozo, as he was nicknamed, had no doubts about which role he intended to take. Blessed with a middle-class background, a sound Jesuit education, a phenomenal memory and a wit to match his impudence, Voltaire hammered on every anvil in sight with an exuberance no enlightened common sense could quite explain...
...generations, most Americans have regarded tradition as something to be abandoned without much regret-like a too heavy saddlebag on the Donner Pass or a jammed rifle at Shiloh. That a man should live and die in the house where he was born, that he should take up his father's trade as a matter of course-these things have signified stagnation. Change has been our commonplace, our comfort and our proof of progress...
Just lately a shift in feeling has set in. As times grow more difficult, the new looks less promising; the settled old ways take on new luster. Anyone too inclined to idealize the countrified past, however, or dote on the imagined joys of continuity, might do well to study, as a cautionary text, this extraordinary portrait of an English village. Akenfield is a pseudonym for a real agricultural village of 300 souls about 90 miles and-until recently-several cultural centuries removed from London. "On the face of it," remarks Ronald Blythe, "it is the kind of place in which...