Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys at Winchester have from time immemorial been obliged to take a dip in a tubful of cold water before breakfast-hangers-back being dunked forcibly. Ever since Mr. Gaitskell's rise to notoriety, there has been a rumor prevalent at his old school that it was his treatment in that institution which led to his subsequent quaint opinions about capitalists and, inter alia, the education of their progeny...
...that might serve for guidance. Back came Rome Bureau Chief Walter Guzzardi with the word that, while covering a political story in Libya, he took a day off to visit Leptis Magna, and was so impressed that he took some of his own color pictures. He sent along his take, thinking that it "might help show what the place looks like...
That was where this particular color story took a different turn. To their surprise, the editors found that Reporter Guzzardi's pictures had no technical faults, were as good as any specialist could be expected to take. No professional photographer, Guzzardi reported that he had used a seven-year-old camera. His three pages of color pictures are an amateur's professional triumph...
...against, Judd dourly for. Louisiana's Passman, 59, onetime refrigerator distributor and World War II Navy materiel and procurement officer, seven-term Congressman and Appropriations Committee axman, is an acknowledged expert who knows how to find every foreign-aid dollar in every foreign-aid pipeline and how to take maximum debating advantage thereof. Minnesota's Dr. Judd. 60, onetime medical missionary in China, is a nine-term Congressman and Foreign Affairs Committee veteran who just as expertly supports foreign aid out of his own personal experiences...
Bostonians can take these and other college courses for credit for the first time this Fall through the Commission on Extension Courses...