Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheering emergency session of Parliament last night Jordan will accuse Syria of an act of aggression for intercepting King Hussein's vacation-bound plane. Thunderous applause greeted his announcement that the government would bring the case before the U.N. Security Council and would ask Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to take quick measures for a debate...
...John II (533-535) was the first Pope to take a different name on acceding to the papacy. The reason: his original name was the inappropriately pagan one of Mercury...
Home Before Dark (Warner). "Charlotte, you know you shouldn't have coffee on an empty stomach." "Charlotte, you really do smoke too much." "Charlotte, you look so tired. Do go take a nap now." "Charlotte, we simply have to go to Boston and get you some decent clothes." Charlotte (Jean Simmons) has just come home from a mental hospital, where she has spent a year and undergone eight applications of electroshock, and her stepmother (Mabel Albertson) is determined to do her duty by the unfortunate creature-no matter how unpleasant it may be for both of them...
...drumbeatniks who brood during a few drinks about the morality of what they are doing, then get over it. Author Stephens' hero, for instance, guiltily grows an ulcer after he rings in an infected blood sample in the yearly Wassermann test the agency requires his boss to take. He also gets the boss's job, and at the fable's end looks forward to an old age of health and wealth. Other new reading matter for the 6:05 to Westport...
About those cigars. The book discloses to the world that Churchill smoked them only halfway: it was Norman's duty to collect the halves and take them in a special box to Kearns, one of the Chartwell gardeners, who smoked them in his pipe. Churchill smoked only nine cigars a day, says Norman, on the defensive about his guv'nor's habits, but he admits they were strong enough to make Prince Georg of Denmark (a nonsmoker) violently sick after three puffs. As for whisky. Churchill was always at it. But Norman explains that the mixture (with...