Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Those who were responsible for the stagnation will have to take responsibility for it," he declared...
...Take the service out of the hands of the police. Make it run all night, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Equip it with enough cars and drivers to accommodate the number of students who want to use it. And most important, write the following sentence into the escort service rules: "No persons holding a valid Harvard ID shall be denied transportation to their place of residence or to or from any Harvard building on the Cambridge or Allston campuses." Obviously, a certain, fixed distance, preferably encompassing Cambridge and the nearby outlying areas, should be established so that the escort...
Still, as last week's quake in San Francisco demonstrated only too well, it does not take a Big One to deal a lethal blow. For this reason, some geologists think that the Big One has been overemphasized as a near-term threat. There are faults up and down the California coast capable of equaling the latest quake, and that is enough reason to worry. Likely candidates for significant quakes in Northern California include not only Berkeley and Oakland but also the Silicon Valley. The Los Angeles Basin, for its part, has experienced an increase in small earthquakes, which many...
...tombs of Nimrud's all powerful kings. The hunt is not without its dangers, however. Only after opening Princess Yabahya's grave did Muzahim's team decipher the ancient cuneiform curse inscribed on a marble tablet: "If anyone lays hands on my tomb . . . let the ghost of insomnia take hold of him for ever and ever...
Stevens has been the butler at Darlington Hall in Oxfordshire since 1922. It is now 1956, and his new employer, an American named Mr. Farraday, encourages the butler to take a brief vacation in the owner's vintage Ford. Stevens hesitantly agrees. Running Darlington Hall with a staff of four, which Mr. Farraday has requested, as opposed to the 17 assistants Stevens once supervised, has been hard on his nerves. A drive to the West Country might do him good. Besides, Stevens has received a letter from Miss Kenton, the housekeeper who resigned in 1936 to be married, revealing that...