Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take exception to the remark by Dr. Leonard Lovshin that "How many children a woman has makes little difference . . ." As the mother of seven, I find there is seven times as much work and worry, seven times as much noise, and I get seven times as tired...
...betting was that nothing would really be agreed upon at Geneva, except the necessity to take differences to a higher level...
...week's end Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, commerce committee chairman, announced that he hoped his committee would take action on the confirmation of Lewis Strauss this week. At that point, 111 days had passed since President Eisenhower had sent Strauss's nomination to the Senate-two days more than the total time it had taken the Senate to confirm all 13 of Lewis Strauss's predecessors as Secretary of Commerce...
...cream and gold Somerset Hotel ballroom, cagily saw him out of town again. Before the homefolk Jack took only one good-humored peck at Lyndon : "Some people refer to Senator Johnson as the next President of the United States, but I see no reason why he should take a demotion." Smiling broadly, Johnson bandied back. Said he: "I promise my backing to Jack Kennedy as a candidate for any office-to which he is nominated by the Democratic Party...
...April 30, still a favorite date among pool guessers. Not since that first year, mourn citizens of Nenana, has anybody from the lottery's home town won a prize. But Nenana (pop. 350) runs the contest as a civic enterprise and rakes in some 40% of the total take every year without any help from luck. In the spring, just about every adult in town works for the lottery for a while, at an average $2 an hour, sorting tickets, keeping records, guarding the clock to see that nobody tampers with...