Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without question, Roger Bannister was Britain's best foot forward in spiked shoes since the great Sydney Wooderson. Another Oxford lad, Nick Stacey, ran off with the 100-and 220-yd. dashes and Teammate Philip Morgan took the twomile. But in the hurdles and field events, where professional coaching pays off, the coach-less Britons flopped. They lost the meet...
...class, Bonifacio took some notes with Braille stylus & slate, but mainly he relied on his memory. He earned A grades in all courses, all four years; it was the first such scholastic record established at the University of Nevada in 17 years. Last week at commencement, the eyes of 227 classmates were on blind Bonifacio as he received Nevada's highest scholastic honor, the Herz Gold Medal...
There was always something odd about Edward John Burra. His classmates laughed when they caught him daubing red paint on the noses of classical plaster casts at art school, but they watched in awed wonder when he took to drinking champagne out of ashtrays and washing his face in film developer. When Burra's health forced him to quit school and moderate his prankish ways, he retired to his parents' house in Rye, on England's South Coast, made a studio of his old top-floor nursery and settled down to work while gradually transforming the place...
...morning last week, waiting for the opening gong. When it rang, they furiously began waving orders to buy. The price of wheat futures rose by the hour, jumping as much as 8¾? a bushel. Professional speculators, who had been selling wheat short while the price was edging down, took heavy losses...
...Betty Jo Hill, suing for alimony, told the court that her husband "ignored me completely and devoted himself exclusively to watching the television programs." In Denver, police learned that Private Sam Fowler, hospitalized with a bullet wound in his hip, had criticized his wife's cooking; she took five shots at him with a .38 revolver. In Vancouver, B.C., Mrs. Constance McLeod got a divorce after testifying that her husband bit a piece out of their marriage certificate and threatened to make her eat the rest...