从下列单词中选择适当的词填空，每个词只能用一次。
clerkin　looking　new　son　spent
started　took　were　which　without　won
Bill Grant was a famous American newspaper editor. He worked for the same newspaper from 1926 through 1968. He 1 as a clerk but by 1948 he had become the editor, 2 was the position he held until he retired.
Bill wrote his first story for the newspaper 3 the day the New York Stock Market crashed in 1929. Two of the newspaper’s writers 4 thirty miles away from town 5 into an airplane crash and the other was in San Francisco investigating Chinatown. When the 6 of the stock market crash came into the office Bill immediately sat down and write up the story. The editor liked it so much that he used the story 7 making any change in it. After that the editor decided that Bill should be a writer, not a 8.
After this first story Bill became especially interested in financial news, though he wrote stories on just about everything. In 1945 he 9 five months in Europe and wrote stories about the end of World War II.
One of Bill’s greatest moments came in 1946. A story he had written about the war 10 the National Newspaperman’s Award. Bill took the prize but gave all the credit to his editor.