Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first young lady to come to this class in all the years I've been teaching it," the colonel went on. "Are you thinking of auditing this course?" "I'd like to take it, sir," she answered. The colonel laughed. "You're welcome." Before the experiment, skeptics had warned she'd be thrown out on her curls...
...decide to take the course, there might be one problem. Most people drill on Monday afternoons as part of the course. You'd have to write a stiffer paper to make up for those sessions." He didn't comment on the possibility of girls drilling with the other students...
...compelled, though I am about ten months early, to nominate Fidel Castro as TIME'S Man of the Year. We here in America should take an example from him. He fought for a democracy for 5 1/2 years. How many days would we Americans fight to keep our democracy and freedom from becoming a dictatorship...
...when he goes without sleep. The medicine men, lured by the scent of big data, moved in on the ballyhoo of a Times Square stunt, set up an elaborate laboratory in the Hotel Astor, poked and pried and quizzed Disk Jockey Peter Tripp for 200 sleepless hours. It will take months to sift the stacks of data they gathered. Tripp gave his verdict the moment he was saved by the clock: "You can't stay awake alone. You need someone there to keep telling you, 'Up, boy, up.' " See MEDICINE, Sleepless in Gotham...
...answer, shrugged it off: Anybody who tries to steer a course down the middle of the road, he said, has "got to take it from both sides...