Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brunswick, NJ. had set out to build a home for 23-year-old ex-Marine Robert William Hoelzle, who lost the use of his legs when he was hit by a Japanese bullet on Okinawa. It was just like an old-fashioned house-raising bee, except that it took place in the age of the assembly line and the publicity...
...committee begged Mrs. Clauson to attend the ball as a "hostess" along with the 25 losing contestants. They pleaded that proceeds of the ball were to establish a civilian-worker welfare fund. They took her shopping, bought her a complete new outfit and a few hours in a beauty parlor. They arranged to pick her up in a 1949 Lincoln. Mrs. Clauson relented. All over the base, signs went up: "Our Queen Eva will be there tonight-how about...
...night of the ball, some 4,000 people came to Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet. Permanent-waved and smartly turned out, Mrs. Clauson was trembling when she took her place with the other hostesses to greet guests. Captain Smith arrived, and everybody watched to see what he would do. He breezed right by Mrs. Clauson without a word. Soon, she retired to the cloakroom, and talked with the hatcheck girls. After a while, she helped them check hats & coats...
...enchanted voyage began. A fuel line broke and the Pasado took a whole day to clear San Pedro. Just past the breakwater, the engine coughed and quit; it took another hour to fix it. The old tub pitched with a horrible intensity and all the passengers were sick long before she got under way again. Soon the toilets backed up and floated the luggage. The second day out the lone shower was turned off-there was a water shortage-and nobody had a bath for the rest of the voyage. Nobody, for that matter, bothered to take off his clothing...
...disaster in China. Nearly a million Communist troops along a 400-mile front poured across the broad Yangtze, Nationalist China's last great defensive barrier, and swept government positions aside like puny earthworks in a raging tide. The Communists moved in with impressive speed. In four days they took Nanking, cut off Shanghai, and captured half a dozen strategic Nationalist cities. They were driving hard for the rest of free China not yet engulfed in the Red flood...