Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Criminal Mind. In Salmon, Idaho, G.I. Hurley reported to police that someone had stacked all his furniture by the front steps, stolen the house. In Winnipeg, thieves broke into a house, took nothing but the kitchen sink...
Scuttled. In Croydon, England, Vice Admiral Sir John Edgell took a careful second look at his notes, abruptly ended his speech before the Royal Navy Old Comrades Association with a confession: "By mistake I brought a shopping list my wife gave...
...City, which gave Harry Truman his start in politics, all but fell apart last week, just as its most famous offspring reached his greatest glory. When fat old Tom Pendergast died in 1945, after a short stretch in Leavenworth for income-tax evasion, his nephew and image, Jim Pendergast, took over the creaky remnants of the machine. But Jim just didn't have the touch...
Today is the 47th meeting between Harvard and Brown. The record book shows that the Crimson has won 38 of the games, one ended in a tie, and Brown took the rest...
...point is that Wood, like most authors who have something to write about, took the trouble to write is as simply and clearly as he could. Now if you happen to be James Joyce, and what you have to say is very special, then even the clearest way of saying it may not be at all easy to follow. The difficulty in Miss Handy's poem--which is its punctuaton--I now think to be this sort of necessary difficulty. But I will bet that Joyce and Miss Handy wrote as simply as their subjects permitted them to write...