Word: took
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...anti-gun forces took some energy from public outrage over the shootings. California's assembly approved a bill designed to limit handgun sales. The gun lobby in Colorado had been expecting to get passage of three bills (to loosen restrictions on concealed-weapons permits, to ban local lawsuits against manufacturers and to pre-empt local ordinances on firearms). State legislators quickly withdrew two of them, and Governor Bill Owens promised to veto the third. Earlier in April, Missouri voters defeated a referendum to lift a constitutional ban on concealed weapons. So far this year, New Mexico, Kansas and Nebraska have...
...responses were sung in breathless hysteria. It was a lighthearted moment in a year that has been heavy with pain and injustice. As the boy dashed out of the living room, the adults quickly turned sober again. Rosetta Crawford, the boy's grandmother and family matriarch, took a drag on her cigarette and said softly, "We were a quiet family. But somehow we became the most hated people in the world...
...break on price. You don't. For example, Into Thin Air, which I bought, costs $6.39 whether you get it in paperback or electronic-book format. And forget about instant delivery. It can take hours for your order to be processed and your book delivered. (In my case, it took significantly longer since the e-mail address I used to set up my eBook was different from the one I had used to set up a barnesandnoble.com account. As a result all my purchases were rejected at first...
...Gregory IX, the Pope who canonized St. Francis, wanted to establish San Francesco partly for religious reasons and partly for political ones--Assisi, which had been wrested from the Holy Roman Emperor only some 20 years before, was the major power base for the papacy in central Italy. He took the sanctuary under his ample wing, supplying the land and encouraging donations to it. Later Popes sometimes took up residence there...
DIED. ELIZABETH ("LIZ") TILBERIS, 51, editor of Harper's Bazaar; of ovarian cancer; in New York City. After rising from intern to editor in chief of British Vogue, the Manchester-born Tilberis took the helm at Hearst's Harper's Bazaar in 1992. She quickly turned the sluggish magazine into an important arbiter of style. Known for her grace and decency in a famously cutthroat business, Tilberis campaigned for cancer awareness in the pages of Bazaar and in a 1998 memoir, No Time...