Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman bled for a while in silence. Then he picked himself up and told everyone firmly that he felt fine. Furthermore, he said, he was going to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act, even if it took him the rest of his four years...
...most weren't sure how the plan would affect them. The vocal, well-organized real-estate groups yelped in noisy pain. "It's a phony and a fraud," cried one big Boston apartment owner. Landlords claimed that Woods's formula was based on false mathematics, took no account of the value of their property. According to many landlords, they would be collecting only 2 to 3% on the "fair value" of their properties even if they could wangle an increase...
...discovery threw Bourbon County politicos into an uproar. The FBI went to work on the case. A citizens' committee was organized and elected Bourbon County's Lawyer Cassius M. Clay* as its chairman. Several county grand juries investigated the case but took no action. As time dragged on it began to look as though the mystery might never be solved...
...investigator for the House Appropriations Committee traced the bureaucratic travels of an order of dehydrated onions for the Army. It was date-stamped, time-stamped, examined, routed, copied, receipted, underlined, described, key-punched, card-punched, coded, abstracted, indexed; inspected, noted and vouchered through 288 separate steps-and it took a month to get the onions...
Romance with Head Cold. When The Blue Bird was produced in Paris, the author's eyes lingered on a lively girl who played the part of "Cold-in-the-Head." He took her home to the ancient Benedictine abbey near Rouen which he had bought as his residence. Eight years later, when Cold-in-the-Head was 27, the 57-year-old poet forsook Georgette and married her. They reconverted a huge gambling casino on a hillside overlooking Nice. There they settled down...