Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took a lot of "fooling around" to get that visa, but Ed got it. "I told them," Ed said, "that I wanted to go there and buy a lot of Russian vodka, $2,000,000 worth, and sell it to the people in the U.S. I told them it wouldn't hurt Russia a bit." Two months ago Ed left for Europe with a bunch of Indianapolis businessmen on a tour sponsored by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, and when he got to Helsinki, he decided to use his visa...
...That's Heaven . . ." Ed roamed around Moscow for ten days. He said it was 90% slums. He said pregnant women worked on paving jobs in the streets while army officers walked around. Caviar, he said, cost twice as much in Moscow as it did in Indianapolis. Ed even took in a ballet. He couldn't help laughing, he said, when he looked down from a box on Ambassador Kirk, who couldn't sit in a box because of the five Russians who were always trailing him. "He had to sit in the orchestra," said Ed, "because there...
...Paris. He had come to France from Vienna last June and signed up as a dompteur or wild animal tamer with Pinder's traveling circus. He was fired after his first appearance, when an elephant which he was supposed to lead around the ring refused to budge. Steinmann took his problem to a Paris lawyer who in turn took it to court. "To say," roared Lawyer Theodore Valensi, demanding 1,500,000 francs damages, "that a lion tamer cannot control an animal as docile as an elephant is the worst of insult...
...department could struggle along on any less. Foreign Minister Bevin wanted to cut social services, Health Minister Aneurin Bevan insisted that his housing and health plans were "sacrosanct." Attlee tried to mollify everybody. He was still keeping strict secrecy when he took the plan to Buckingham Palace for the King's approval...
When he reigned, Leopold had a reputation for disregarding his ministers' counsel. But at week's end he canceled his hunting junket, instead took his princess to Paris for an "incognito" holiday...