Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nation," TIME, May 2: Last Sunday we thrust our dinner between slices of bread, jumped into old clothes, tossed our youngest into her stroller, handed our boy the fishpoles, met two friends and took off-on foot. We walked about two miles to the local reservoir, sniffing Nature and listening to our shoes flapping happily on the old narrow road. When we got there, we spread a blanket and a lunch, and annoyed a few fish until suppertime...
Modest, homely Omar Bradley of Moberly, Mo., the Army's Chief of Staff, slipped on his steel-rimmed glasses in the Senate Caucus room last week and took a soldier's look at the North Atlantic Treaty. The diplomats and statesmen had argued out the legal niceties of the pact. Infantryman Bradley skipped the fine print and drove to the main point. In his mild, high-pitched voice, Bradley told the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee: "Our frontiers of collective defense lie in common with theirs [the other treaty nations'] in the heart of Europe...
...Class of '50 took the intramurals cup away from the current senior class for the first time in three years this spring...
Despite his great popularity, Munch is a very modest man very much aware of his own defects. Once many years ago, when Toscanini was conducting a French orchestra usually conducted by Munch, he unobtrusively took a seat in the first violins and played with the orchestra to learn how Toscanini gets his effects...
Fielding, which has been the strongest point of the Crimson nine, fell apart like a vintage roadster yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field, and by the time the parts were pieced together again Holy Cross took its second win from the Harvard baseball team...