Word: takin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little sight-seein'," reported Folsom, a widower and father of two. "And ... we had some dinner and dancin'." Was it serious between him and Virginia? "That's a 'no comment' question, honey," said he. But he was shortly moved to an extension of remarks. "Takin' a girl out is all part of nature," mused the rough-hewn Governor. ". . . And I'm a man who likes to get close to nature...
...They're gonna have to have a new levee," he said, "or I'm gonna leave town. Year after year, I been takin' this water in pretty good humor. But no longer. Either they build a levee, or I'm takin' to the hills...
...U.S.A. Unit of Rural Church Work helped with the project. Big Lick's 50 families supplied labor. Smathers was the foreman. Said a grizzled Big Lick farmer last week: "That feller did it all. I seen him a-standin' out there in the sun, day after day, takin' holt of the building." By the time the church was built, the people of Big Lick and their pastor had built more than a church. They had welded themselves into a Christian community...
...when Lena sings at dinner and supper, forks are halted in midcareer. Flashing one of the most magnificent sets of teeth visible outside a store, she seethes her songs with the air of a bashful volcano. As she reaches the end of Honeysuckle Rose ("When I'm takin' sips from your tasty lips, seems the honey fairly drips")* her audience is gasping...
...Another time I see him standin' on the bridge and lookin' up while we was takin' a horrible dive bombin'. It wasn't a matter of lookin' up at the sky to see the Stukas, it was a matter of lookin' up at the Stukas to see a patch of sky. 'There's a bluenose [1,000-lb. bomb] comin' down two points off the starboard bow,' he says to the captain, like he was tellin' him there was a small school of flying fish ahead...