Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took a wrong turn left, instead of right. The road sort of died out. Mom was just going to turn back when all of a sudden the fog socked in on us. Couldn't see a thing. Mom tried to climb . . . Then we hit. The left wing sheared off. Both wings were off and we toppled over. Mom breathed roughly for a while and then was still. I knew...
...nights later, when he played Leporello in Don Giovanni, the operagoers cheered again. Critics found Tajo a first-rate singer; audiences took to him because he was also a first-rate comedian...
...found herself in the studio of His Majesty's Voice recording company. The famed star of the Milan Opera, Madame Margherita Grandi, was making a recording of the sleepwalking scene from Verdi's Macbeth. Suddenly, right at the end, Madame Grandi shut her mouth, and Dorothy took over. She sang three notes-F, A flat, and top D flat. For her pains, she got a slight bow from Madame Grandi and 5 guineas ($21.15). Then she went home. She was to keep her three notes and 5 guineas a secret...
Three days later, in what looked like the toughest test of Citation's career-the twomile, $100,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup -Arcaro was prepared to try out the magic words once more. This time he didn't even have to speak. He took the big mahogany-colored horse to the front at the start. Citation won by eight easy lengths, in the longest distance he has ever...
...week, tongues were wagging with happiness and hope. At last, the state had an iron-jawed, copper-bellied football team that combed its hair with lightning and ate opposing tackles for breakfast. First crack out of the box, a fortnight ago, the ferocious University of North Carolina Tar Heels took Texas apart...