Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little crowd of U.S. and Chinese officials was on hand to greet her. But the welcome turned into something like a bargain-basement sale. The crowd pushed, photographers struggled. George Marshall was conspicuously absent; he had gone to Walter Reed Hospital with an old kidney ailment. Mrs. George Marshall took Madame Chiang firmly by the arm, led her past the microphones of protesting radio men and into a State Department Cadillac...
...diaries of their trips, together with Mama's answers and letters to and from other members of the Roosevelt clan, are collected in Vol. II of F.D.R., His Personal Letters (edited by son Elliott* and published by Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $5). Vol. I (TIME, Oct. 13, 1947) took F.D.R. from boyhood to young manhood; Vol. II carries him from his honeymoon...
...Babs took the children to Campobello for the summers. From Washington, Franklin wrote her hurried notes. From a July 1917 letter: "Last night I thought I heard a burglar and sat at the head of the stairs with the gun for half an hour, but it turned out to be the cat . . ." He visited the fleet and found "things not right . . . due to old lady officers and lack of decision in Department...
...coming down the road "all brass buttons and bayonets," remember the uncertain years while the family that had owned him disintegrated and disappeared. Uncle Row stayed on, farming a little, a good hand with horses and stock. He hunted wildcat, bobcat, polecat, foxes, coons, possums and rabbits. Nights, he took a coal-oil lantern down to the Keechi Creek, baited up with rabbit entrails, fished all night long. Uncle Row could catch catfish, when no one else could. There was a secret to it, but Uncle Row said: "Bless my soul, I'd explain...
...broad highway from the Zuider Zee topped a beech-trimmed ridge, then dropped into the town. In the growing darkness, the steep-roofed houses spread themselves out in misty brick waves. At the hotel, a man took my suitcase and typewriter, then ushered us inside. A banquet table had been spread across the length of the dining room...