Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slug, gulped it down. Up it came. With his companions, the rector's son ran shakily for the train, missed the handrail, fell and knocked himself out. Someone on the platform pulled him clear of the wheels. The train rolled off with the gang and his baggage. It took him several days to catch up, but a determined Dean arrived at the north woods camp at last, to spend a summer learning to smoke a pipe, talk like a roughneck, and cope with life...
When he finally took aim at Moscow, he drew the fire of Russian propagandists, who yelped that some of his remarks were "gross and rude slander." He helped fashion the so-called Truman Doctrine and warned Congressmen: "This is a dangerous life and a dangerous world." He planted a seed in a speech at Cleveland, Miss., which, somewhat to his astonishment, blossomed into the Marshall Plan...
Before the week was out, Congress took one step toward restoring legislative calm. The House voted $150,000 to buy new chairs for the House floor. The old wooden seats, explained Capitol Physician George Calver, were so long from front to back that when a member sat back, circulation was cut off at his calves. When he sat forward to ease his legs, he tended to slump down, push his stomach up into his lungs, impairing his digestion and breathing. The new armless models would permit members to recline in healthy, upholstered comfort and, possibly, improve congressional dispositions...
...guests-many of them Congressmen-settled into the wooden stands, the Air Force cut loose with everything it had. F-80s whooshed by, skimming the ground, stunting singly and in tight formation. The spectacular eight-jet Flying Wing took off and zoomed upward, followed by the six-jet B-47, trailing clouds of smoke from 18 rocket units. In a race of bomber v. fighter the B-47 Stratojet walked away from the F-80, then was outrun by the swept-back F-86, which has already clocked a record 670.981 m.p.h. For a roaring finale the Air Force sent...
...Took notice of the Rankin pension grab (see The Congress) with a little speech to officials of the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "I hope it will be possible for you to help me to help the veterans of this country understand that this United States is theirs . . . and there are certain limits to which its financial welfare cannot be stretched...