Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demonstrate his zeal for law enforcement, began raiding gambling joints, breaking up slot machines and punchboards. He even raided a law enforcement officers' club called the "Footprinters" and fired one of his deputies, one Ard Pratt (a nephew of the former sheriff), for being there. But Mike soon took Ard back and became so pally with him that the two became known as Ard and Lard. He also lost his zeal for knocking over slot machines...
...year sheriff bought an airplane, a new automobile and a new house. He took his wife on a trip to Lake Tahoe. He got the county to provide a $163 uniform which was loaded with gold braid. But Ard himself told him "not to put that damn thing on and make a fool of himself." It seemed that no matter what he did, people objected...
Lookouts were posted along both sides of the straightaway, flashlights ready to blink at the first sign of police. The first few cars took off with a roar, sped down the highway at 60, 70, 100 miles an hour. They ripped along two abreast, made oncoming motorists scurry to the side of the road. The boulevard's residents took one resigned look and telephoned the police...
...Lord Lyons (1859-65), who took the hot blast of Northern resentment at British help to the South. ¶ James Bryce (1907-13), who was well known in the U.S., before he became Ambassador, for his great book The American Commonwealth. Bryce was widely respected; when he attended the Old Presbyterian Church in Washington he was always escorted to Abraham Lincoln's pew. ¶ Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1913-18), the World War I Ambassador, so supercautious that he dared make only one public speech in his five years in the U.S. ¶ Rufus Isaacs, Lord Reading...
Tongue for Imperialism? Nehru's views were not shared by many of the 36 legislators who took part in the argument. Most of them spoke in English. They offered more than 300 amendments. Southerners were most vehement. They hooted and jeered at pro-Hindi spokesmen, denounced "Hindu imperialism." Madras Representative Ramalingam Chettiar complained: "The way north Indians are trying to dominate us and dictate to us is galling ... I have been in Delhi for two years, and no north Indian has so far invited me even once for social functions, just because I don't know Hindi...