Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the fact we live in the town where it happened, it took TIME to tell us that blows were actually struck-instead of the whitewashed propaganda handed out by the college to the effect it was just a schoolboy fracas over a sweater...
Think About Asia. Last week a stream of Senators took the floor to slash at the bankrupt U.S. policy toward China. Twenty-one Senators signed a statement demanding assurances that the U.S. would not recognize the Chinese Communists...
...bespectacled Ignatius D. Taubeneck, history teacher in the Bronxville (N.Y.) High School, who had turned up before a Senate appropriations sub-committee to present an economy petition signed by 2,000 citizens of suburban Westchester County, which borders New York City. Ex-Mayor Frederick C. McLaughlin of White Plains took it from there. Said McLaughlin...
Against this $40 or $50 billion program stands the 1929 budget: in that prosperous year it took only $3.8 billion to run the U.S. Government. It took $7.3 billion in free-spending...
Cautiously, but conscientiously, he set out to clean up a Los Angeles that had 300 gambling houses, 1,800 bookies, 23,000 slot machines and 600 brothels. He waited for seven months before he took steps to remodel the police department, but when he did, he kicked out 23 high-ranking officers. He appointed a college graduate as police chief, and a Rhodes scholar as fire chief...