Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compiling it, Assistant Professor Jacob Scher, helped by three Chicago Tribune staffers, took a firm stand against hackneyed journalese. Sample warning: "Regardless of the gravity of an accident, don't 'rush' an ambulance to the scene. Don't 'dispatch' one, either. Just 'send' one. Don't 'rush' the victims to a hospital. Just 'take' them...
...likes to be called, dashed up to Manhattan, her pincenez dangling wildly at her bosom, for a television gabfest with her good friend Mary Margaret McBride, and Congressman Fred Hartley. Said Tufty later: "Mary Margaret was a little out of her depth with Fred, so I just took over and interviewed him myself...
...staff of cubs to ferret out local angles in the news, peddled her clients a complete line of political stories and personality items, including her own daily columns. She soon had many a bigwig, including Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, eating out of her hand. Two years ago she took on as partner J. Albert Dear, a New Jersey publisher...
...through Arizona and New Mexico, it was all sunny skies and schoolgirl daydreams. Then the bus crossed into the Texas Panhandle, and she was gruffly ordered to get back in the rear where she belonged; the front seats were for white folks only. Bewildered and frightened, Florence got off, took the next bus back to the reservation...
...York offices, and put in the past year as boss of sales. Leithead has a salesman's persuasive tongue, the casual manners of an ex-cowhand (he worked on his father's ranch in Lovell, Wyo.), and a vague distrust of Eastern ways. (Until he took up foxhunting in Westchester County, N.Y., he would not ride anything but a Western saddle.) When his son Roger reached college age, Leithead, who went to two colleges (Drake and Northwestern) but never graduated, sent him to Iowa State, saying: "The Ivy League isn't worth a darn...