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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening day, Texas' Tom Connally, dressed in a rumpled linen suit, took the floor to begin the case for the North Atlantic Treaty. With no galleries to play to -in the old semicircular chamber where the Monroe Doctrine was first pronounced 126 years ago-Tom Connally went right to the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Fraternity of Peace | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...Word to the Foreman. Then Murphy took up the defense's explanation of where the Hiss typewriter was at the time the confidential documents were typed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Weeds, Roses & Jam | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Amid the closing hubbub, Alger Hiss sat motionless, staring straight ahead. Priscilla Hiss watched him, her eyes moist. At last she took his arm and they walked out together. Hiss said, "Please, please," to questions and walked on. Outside, they got into a red Chevrolet with some friends. Photographers rushed to the windows. Alger Hiss hid his face behind a magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Weeds, Roses & Jam | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...voice, Davis recalled his early days in Dawson, Ga., where he grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Grandson of a slave and son of a newspaper editor, he had it better than most Southern Negroes. He went north to Amherst where he played varsity football, then took a law degree at Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Man & Automaton | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...established formal diplomatic relations with China's Communists; last week, the Communists took the initiative, informally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: No Hands | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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