Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, irate housewives took matters into their own hands, sturdily began to clean their sidewalks. The street cleaners' wives promptly hooted them and denounced them as scabs, but the housewives went on sweeping...
...Three times his own verger had turned away the cat that wandered unannounced from the turmoil of Watling Street to make her home in his church. At the fourth try the rector interceded. "The cat must stay," he said. "She has chosen our church, and she must remain." Faith took up residence in his rectory. Years of halcyon days followed when Faith would recline in proprietary ease in St. Augustine's carpeted pews, rubbing languorously against the ankles of parishioners dropping in for midday prayer. At services she would sit in quiet dignity at the rector's feet...
...second uprising in less than three months. Last time (TIME, July 19) it had been the army; now it was the navy. Rebel sailors and officers seized five warships, locked up or shot their commanders, sent landing parties ashore under cover of a ragged bombardment. Shore-based sailors quickly took over the Naval Academy and the naval armory, moved on to occupy an army barracks and the ancient, star-shaped fortress, Real Felipe...
Argentina's First Lady Eva Duarte de Perón was on the way to becoming First Lady of Argentina's press. Last week she took over her third Buenos Aires newspaper, Noticias-Grdficas, and the capital had a good time with the story of how Evita swung the deal...
...Gorgeous George" looked his best in a grey double-breasted suit. At his side stood his handsome, smartly tailored wife Fiorenza (TIME, June 7), who said over & over: "I leave the issues to George." George took good care of the issues. His own man, Frederick G. Gardiner (another Toronto lawyer), was running the platform committee...