Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...testing took a long time-and produced some delightful surprises. From time to time word would come from the Young & Rubicam experimental kitchen, of which Miss Arfmann is the director, that a recipe had turned out extraordinarily well and would somebody from TIME like to come down and taste it. Somebody always did, and took the recipe home for his wife to try. As Miss Arfmann's list of approved (as both unusual and practical) recipes grew, we began mailing some of them out to food stores to be displayed with their goods. Customers tried them and asked...
...Associated Press took a look at the $500 million in pay raises voted by Congress and made a few rapid-fire calculations about the costs of Big Government ¶The federal payroll (including the armed services) is now over $10 billion a year...
...orders could not be filled just then. Hitler's armies took what was left of Solingen's output. When peace came, trade barriers in the Allies' dismantling policy, lack of manpower and the inroads of foreign mass production were new handicaps to the craftsmen of Solingen. But inch by inch Solingen fought its way back, and the steelmakers never forgot their faithful customers, many of them barbers who would not attack their customers' whiskers with anything but a Solingen razor...
With the election of his successor less than three weeks away, Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez proclaimed a state of siege. In a volley of swift decrees he also: 1) indefinitely suspended Congress (which has a Liberal majority); 2) took away the power of the supreme court's Liberal majority to nullify any of his acts; 3) imposed censorship on press, radio and cables; 4) banned meetings and demonstrations; 5) empowered government officials to dismiss all remaining Liberal employees...
When passers-by saw it the next morning, they gaped and gasped: the father's massive figure was unclothed. Within a few minutes a crowd of several hundred had gathered, and somebody called the police. The cops elbowed their way through the onlookers, took a horrified look themselves, and carted the statue off to the municipal jail...