Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned her loose and jumped out of the car. She got back into the car and locked all four doors. When she started her motor he jumped on the running board of her car and threatened to kill her if she didn't stop. In utter desperation she took a four-foot embankment, almost overturning the car but ridding it of her assailant. ... So much for the facts which you pass over with the words "charged with jumping on the running board of a car to kidnap...
...your information may I state that the accident took place at approximately 3:05 p. m. on the afternoon of Jan. 10, 1938 and that the Bureau of Air Commerce inspector, Mr. A. D. Niemeyer, sent a telegram to Northwest Airlines at 3:59 p. m. on Jan. 11, 1938 from Bozeman, Mont., grounding such planes until further notice. That evening, a confirmation order was sent to the airline company from the Washington office, confirming the action of Inspector Niemeyer...
...press. If the President was startled by the antagonism displayed by the little businessmen (see p. 11 ) toward him and his Administration, he did not indicate it, for he let them run wild on the front page. In the uproar over foreign policy (see col. 2) he took no visible part. With vocal Congressmen trying desperately to force him to redefine his stand, the closest approach to a statement on foreign policy the President made last week was a little speech made to a visiting group of Protestant ministers. The President, an Episcopal warden, said...
...said that the peace of the world depends on the co-operation of the world's democracies-i.e., the U. S., England and France. In 1916, the last time so many-nations were at war, Thomas Woodrow Wilson began with a policy of Peace and Preparedness, then took to playing ball with the British and ended up by saving the world for Democracy at a total cost to the U. S. of 126,000 lives and $40,000,000,000. If that was the tragic gamut Mr. Roosevelt was about to embark on, last week...
...could not stand the sight of each other. On the Aragón front since last May, General Pozas has been able to: 1) bring the recalcitrant Catalans into the fight, 2) capture Belchite, and 3) hand over to his subordinate, General Rojo, the successfully prepared offensive which spectacularly took Teruel (TIME...