Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chubby, jolly Dr. Funk, long a Nazi Party member, and once head of the Third Reich's Press Department, will keep his Economics Ministry which he took from Dr. Schacht in 1937. Specifically charged with maintaining the stability of wages and prices, he will now have the added and important job of opening up and enlarging, in Herr Hitler's words, "the capital market for private financial needs...
...Chamber of Deputies is part German. Admittedly, the party supported storm troops. There was no denying that members occasionally wore greyish-brown shirts and overseas caps. Indeed, they did go about saluting each other with raised arms. Sometimes it is a fact, they drilled. Yes, they once took to the streets to fight the Communists. No good Nacista would deny that he was fanatically nationalistic. There was even a bare possibility that the word Nacista was derived from the party's original full name, Movimiento Nacional Socialista. Nazi came from National Socialist Party...
...quavering, crackerish voice took up the tale: "Today I live at the Mississippi State Hospital in Jackson. Doctors there say I am about 70 years old. ... I am almost bald, and what hair I have is grey. ... I am five feet seven inches tall, and weigh 145 Ibs. My doctor believes I was well educated . . . and I am sure I was once familiar with financial statements. . . . I can identify unusual plants by their botanical names. . . . Also I remember the rules of complicated card games like bridge. "Gradually I have recalled several places where I have been. ... I remember best Pensacola...
...frock with petticoat ruffles showing at the bottom over high-buttoned shoes. At her neck was a ruff of fluffy lace, setting off a face of infinite fiftyish sweetness. Lord read her letter over the air, let Mollie put in her own plea for fat boys. Next day they took her to the big stores, let her ride the escalators, bought her $50 worth of odds and ends, packed her off home...
...passengers and a steward were lost during the ten hours that the survivors, five of them women, clung precariously to seat-pack life preservers. Toward midnight, the Standard Oil tanker Esso Baytown, one of many craft searching by sea and air, picked them up, took them to New York...