Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space program puts this nation at the most serious disadvantage it has yet experienced in the cold war, and it is long overdue that the Eisenhower Administration receive the public reprimand it deserves for this inexcusable situation. Your article on the subject is an excellent study; may Washington take heed...
Army. The 870,000-man Army could not take much of a cut if it was to keep any brush-fire or full-scale war capability. The Army will probably get $9.5 billion, about the same as last year, will make up for inflation by cutting back on already-lagging modernization, e.g., replacing the World War II M-1 rifle with the more up-to-date...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6--Oren Harris (D-Ark.), turning off a House investigation of quiz show rigging, said today Congress should pass new laws to assure program honesty and take a hard look at other channels of television activity...
Fortunately, to protect his eyes from the outside glare, he had long ago secured a cubicle removed from the windows. As the librarian had cheered him, it was "one of our less gay places." But the disturbance in the Square had been enough to take the full sharpness off Lucius' concentration, and before he knew what had happened, his mind was on that business down at the stadium...
...Dionysian in Lucius too, and as a vender went by hawking food, Lucius raised his voice, "Please, one frankfurter." He sacrificed the coin and in a moment the frankfurter was his. To his horror it arrived covered with relish. Relish did not agree with Lucius, and he determined to take it home and scrape...