Word: took
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always "being disregarded, attacked, and commanded to do better-the very things which led him to be an abuser in the first place." Nor is it always wise for a therapist to intervene when he sees a child being badly treated, believes Psychiatric Social Worker Elizabeth Davoren, who took part in the Colorado study. "Protecting a child when you cannot continue such protection beyond the moment may be the cruelest thing...
THAT bit of advertising copy took up less than one-eighth of a page in the Sunday New York Times. But by 7:30 Monday morning, people were falling into line for a show so long awaited and so much talked about that advertising was almost superfluous. By noon, the line stretched along 51st Street, turned the corner at shuttered Lindy's onto Broadway, headed uptown, rounded the corner again and began backing up into 52nd Street. The first day of box-office take for Coco, which starts previews next week, was a record-breaking...
Teacher and Publisher. Almost half of the earnings came from casualty, life and property insurance, mostly sold by companies that Amexco had recently acquired. Amexco has become a force in the mutual-fund business. Last year it took over the Commonwealth Group of four funds, and this spring it started two more, including an "offshore" fund for foreigners. The acquisition of W. H. Morton & Co. and Equitable Securities has given Amexco a strong position in stock and bond underwriting. The company is a major factor in international currency transactions. Every working day the American Express International Banking Corp. buys...
...schoolmaster who imagines he is loved and trusted by his boys is, in fact, mimicked and laughed at behind his back," recalled George Orwell in Such, Such Were the Joys. James Hilton took the opposite view. The schoolmaster who thought himself mocked was actually loved. Orwell's essay may have been what the public needed to know. But Hilton's 1934 novel was what it wished to read. Goodbye, Mr. Chips rapidly passed from sentimental classic bestseller to sentimental classic movie. In the title role, Robert Donat won an Academy Award, and Mr. Chips achieved legendary status...
...over here. We called Houston, New York, Florida, San Juan, everywhere, and it was the same answer. Most places said that I needed an appointment a month or two in advance and Christ, I couldn't wait that long. Tim and I went to Philadelphia, but we took one look at the doctor's office and walked out. The doctor would have done the operation using local anaesthesia, and I couldn't face that...