Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that made him itch to get to a telephone. The story was a brief account (sent in by a TIME correspondent) of the fact that a Birmingham, Ala. housewife had apparently invented a sewing machine needle that would unrip a seam in the same time that it took to sew it. If true, the Abraham & Straus-man said later, "this needle was what an eraser is to a pencil...
...lost weight. But he took the goading silently and performed the duties of his office until the day eight weeks ago when he finally retired. Five days later he was in the hospital-he had collapsed, mentally and physically...
...found guilty and fined $100-a conviction which was upheld by two Illinois courts. He took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which last week handed down its decision. By a majority of one, in an opinion written by liberal Justice William Douglas, it reversed Demagogue Terminiello's conviction...
...occupy stations down the line. A striker leaped into the engineer's cab, slammed on the brake. As the train bumped to a halt, Communist cops began shooting into the crowd. Four times the station changed hands; twelve were seriously wounded. Finally German police from the British sector took over. The Communist cops meekly gave up their arms and were marched off under escort...
During the protest rally, which took place on a street corner, a student named Irving Feiner addressed the crowd for around ten minutes. He was then arrested on the charge of "disorderly conduct...