Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer of 1947 he made a mistake. He met a dark-haired girl named Gloria Horowitz in a Manhattan nightclub; he took her to Philadelphia, gave her some diamonds, told her to sell them for him in a jewelry store. A suspicious clerk called the cops. Dennis, waiting outside the store, saw her being arrested. He calmly walked away, but when Gloria finished talking, the police for the first time had a line...
Stevens, a 42-year-old farmer who once taught school, admitted that he had been dipping into the town till ever since he took office in 1935, but he had put back...
...When about $500 in arrears, I took stock of my position, confiding in one of the selectmen and proffering him my note in lieu of immediate cash. His attitude was, unfortunately, one of sympathy and tolerance. People are sometimes kind when strict reality is more in order...
Most prisoners slept in their clothes on bare boards, 100 to a room-it took Margolin 18 months to get a mattress. They worked nine days out of ten; no Soviet holidays were observed. The only pay was food, and even "100% execution of the work norm was not enough to receive sufficient food." To cover up what was going on, camp commanders in Camp Kotlas received orders in 1945 to list no more deaths caused by malnutrition...
...been content to let Colonial Office veterans run the unliquidated portions of the empire. Whenever it tried to make socialists shoulder the white man's burden, something had gone wrong. Out under the never-setting sun, one of the socialist governors turned more blimpish than Colonel Blimp. Another took his socialist mission a bit too seriously. The latter was Oliver Ridsdale, Earl Baldwin, the socialist son of the late Stanley Baldwin...