Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the court recessed last June, Wiley Rutledge took his family to Maine for a vacation. There he learned of the death of his close colleague, Frank Murphy (TIME, Aug. 1). And there, last week, in a tiny hospital at York Village where he had lain for eight days in a periodic coma, Wiley Blount Rutledge, 55, died of cerebral hemorrhage...
...President Truman, faced with the necessity of appointing a second new justice within two months. Under ordinary circumstances the appointment almost certainly would go to Rhode Island's J. Howard McGrath, a Roman Catholic, who had hoped to get Catholic Frank Murphy's seat but dutifully took the U.S. attorney generalship when Harry Truman chose Tom C. Clark...
...dozen of them took him to a private dinner and banged the table until the china rattled. Then he was led to an Olympic Hotel ballroom to face 75 more inquisitors. There were seven speeches, most of which reiterated a few pointed questions: "Do you consider Seattle defendable?" "If it isn't defendable, why isn't it?" "If it is, why is Boeing getting no new contracts for Seattle...
...name was not quite as bad as Dogpatch or Skunk Hollow, but it was not even granted the same recognition. When Mahwah appeared on envelopes, mail sorters sighed patiently, made a correction and directed the letter to Rahway or Mohawk. Last week the aroused businessmen of Mahwah took a quarter-page advertisement in the New York Times to set people straight about their town...
Cries in the Dark. With night falling fast, the errant balloonist took stock of his situation. "The altimeter," he said later, "was the only instrument I had in the bas. ket. I looked in my pockets to see what else there might be. There was a pocketknife for opening beer bottles, a handkerchief and 1,650 Belgian francs. Nothing else." Bravely the bold aeronaut straightened the pink tie that hung across his cream-colored shirt. Belgium and the motorboat were fast disappearing in the gloaming to windward. As Holland's Walcheren Island coasted by, van der Straeten noticed...