Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considering its enormous turnover of personnel, not to mention the acquiring of a new conductor, the Bach Society Orchestra performed surprisingly well last night in its first concert of the season. Unfortunately, the group has an almost Olympian reputation and it will take a long period of hard work and playing together before they can meet the standards of past years...
Without Taper. In London, Arnold Downham, 47, a clergyman's son, who was sentenced to nine years' preventive detention for stealing candlesticks, asked that the court take into consideration 82 previous offenses-all involving theft of candlesticks...
...cried to a friend, "where are we going to take my wife to dinner? She's been waiting since 5:30 and she's going to be plenty sore. Let's take her to a good restaurant, how about it?" He flipped down the station wagon's sun visor, studied a typewritten timetable of industrial plant and shopping-center openings and closings. Said he, ruefully: "We'll only have about 20 minutes to eat-we have to be in Flushing by 8. I want to catch that crowd at the shopping center. We have...
...daily routine in Washington of attendance at cocktail parties, banquets, concerts, and other social gatherings demands the stamina and inexhaustible vigor of a man who has pledged himself to the difficult task of winning friends and friendship for his country. "When I get tired," he says, "I take a walk in the fresh air, or else I sit down for a while and just think. Thats' enough...
...bones are of reptiles which lived during the Middle Triassic Period, 170 million years ago. It will take the museum several years to prepare for display...