Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle of Britain raged, some 4,500 airmen were pulled out of their wrecked and flaming planes. Of the 600 cases that Sir Archibald took care of, 200 needed total reconstruction jobs on their faces and hands. His wartime hospital has developed into the finest plastic surgery center in Europe...
Checking Out. A fortnight ago Charles Porter, 52, locked his prettily furnished Washington apartment, and went to Clarksburg, W.Va., where he took a hotel room. He hardly stepped out of the room for four days, even...
While the police hesitated, Columnist Drew Pearson, ex-husband of the countess, phoned from Washington to urge them to hang on to Porter's things. The Times-Herald won out. Officers sealed the bags and one of the newsmen took them back to Washington...
...took the dons less than one hour to accept the offer, but it would be months before Oxford's senior common rooms tired of the great guessing game the gift had started. From Paris last week came one guess about Monsieur X's identity: Leon Fabre, 62, multi-millionaire head of the Fabre shipping lines, and a postwar resident...
Charles W. Morton's first weeks at Williams College were an adolescent agony of waiting for an invitation that never came. When fraternity rushing was over, the unpledged and miserable Morton took the first train home...