Sentence:  It <WSD>was</WSD> about that time , a board member said later , that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen , Jr. , State superintendent of schools , told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  happen, occur, take place; this was during the visit to my parents' house"