Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Planned Project. In Kansas City, Mo., the thief who broke into the Flower House took $21 worth of grass seed and a $23 lawnmower...
...Hell. The hysteria of those days, the President went on, had subsided soon after Jefferson took office, and the country had not gone to hell after all. It was not going to hell today. The present hysteria, as he called it, was the kind of thing which happened after every great crisis and every great...
...thin, bushy-haired man who wore a rumpled white shirt, a badly fitting blue suit, and thick-lensed glasses. An excited whispering broke out in the courtroom as he took the stand. He was Henry Julian Wadleigh, whom Chambers had identified as a onetime member of the Communist apparatus in Washington. Though he had refused to answer questions by the House Un-American Activities Committee on the ground that he might incriminate himself, he had obviously come to court in a mood to tell...
...when the court crier raised his sepulchral voice: "Oyez, oyez . . . draw near . . . God save the United States and this Honorable Court." Red curtains parted and into the hushed chamber walked the black-gowned justices of the Supreme Court of the U.S. Led by sad-faced Chief Justice Vinson, they took their high-backed seats, variously shaped and padded to fit their various curves...
There are no Eastern Intercollegiate titles riding on the outcome of the contest--Yale took care of that when it eliminated the Crimson from title contention Monday down at New Haven. Instead there will merely be half a century of Class Day baseball tradition to egg the players on, and the largest and most partisan crowed of the year installed in the venerable stands...