Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take any lip from the umpires...
...performance, President Eisenhower unquestionably deserved the praise that was finally coming his way. It is a matter of medical history that in 1955, 1956 and 1957, Dwight Eisenhower suffered a series of serious illnesses-and it is a matter of medical fact that such illnesses take something out of the victim. But the Dwight Eisenhower everyone was praising last week did not just magically appear last week, or last month...
...that Ike stood up under one of the hardest leadership tests ever imposed on a U.S. President. In the midst of the 1958 economic recession, Democrats were shouting for the Administration to start priming the fiscal pumps. Some of the President's closest advisers urged him to take spending measures against depression. Ike stood firm, refusing to panic under tremendous pressure (TIME, March 24, 1958 et seq.), and the economy dramatically righted itself as he had insisted it would...
Last week, because of the beets, Aaron Gruwell was dead. So were Kenneth Nelson (after lingering more than a week, part of the time in an iron lung) and daughter Wanda, 15. Naomi Nelson, just out of an iron lung, might take months to recover fully. Martha Nelson. 4, was running around but still under observation. Grandma Gruwell, 64, was propped up in a hospital bed, apparently on the mend. Three children-Eileen, 14, Allen, 10, and Donald, 8, who had not eaten the beets-were in good health...
...church, and this time no one was bored. For five years, he developed his somber theme in preaching missions throughout northern Italy. In 1490 he was back in Florence, and the words rang out: "I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter...