Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When their long, painstaking job was done, the four of them filed a 48,000-word report to O'Neil in New York, who thereupon sat down to write his story. When he had finished it, Researcher Anne Lopatin took over the job of verifying a multitude of facts such as the statement that "Los Angeles lands more fish than Boston or Gloucester"-a statistic which our Boston Bureau proved to its personal astonishment and chagrin...
With many an oratorical sigh, Congress took a parting look at the historic chambers it had occupied for nearly one hundred years. From both sides of the aisle came a flurry of windy evocations of the past. Then workmen moved in under the unsightly steel girders which had been supporting the sagging House and Senate roofs since 1940. While a complete $5,000,000 refurbishing went on-from new steel & concrete roofs to television and radio outlets-the House took up a temporary stand across the street in the new House Office Building. The Senate moved back...
...John grandly took the law into his own ham hands. The choice was a three-day week or an industrywide shutdown. In order "to remove the stresses & strains which could cause industry and public irritation," he ordered miners east of the Mississippi to go back to work after July 4, but only on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays...
...born Gwen Cafritz, as a matter of fact, had never even quite made the grade with the hostess whose evening slippers she hopes to fill. Gwen was never invited to Perle's parties, although Perle received several invitations from Gwen. Washington gossips like to say that when Perle took a house not far from the Cafritzes, Gwen promptly phoned her, said: "Now that you're a neighbor, I suppose I'll be seeing more of you." Replied Perle: "I suppose...
They approached it amidst no new sensational disclosures. Instead, the trial in a Manhattan Federal Court took a quieter, tenser turn. FBI agents, in endless search, had followed countless trails from New York to Washington to Baltimore. They had dug through old files, turning up bills of sale, bank accounts, letters-even the fragmentary, casual conversations of years past, now of utmost importance. With these minutiae, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy fought his duel with Alger and Priscilla Hiss and Defense Attorney Lloyd Stryker. With these minutiae, Murphy sought to convict Alger Hiss, once-bright star of the State Department...