Word: drawed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members from the 50th state. In the flip of a silver dollar to decide whether Republican Hiram L. Fong, first man of Chinese ancestry to sit in Congress, or Democrat Oren E. Long would rank as Hawaii's senior Senator, Long called heads and lost. In a draw to determine which would get the long term, Fong won again. Over in the House, Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, World War II hero whose right arm was shattered by a German grenade in Italy, took his seat as Hawaii's sole Representative, became the first man of Japanese ancestry...
With the decline of such established feuding centers as Corsica, Sicily and Harlan County, Ky., the killingest people on earth today may well be the citizens of Ilocos Sur province (pop. 275,000) in northern Luzon. There, long before dusk, nervous wives set out the evening meal and draw the shutters, for, as the local saying goes, when the sun sets, blood begins to flow. Last year 87 murders were recorded in the province, and no one knew how many others went unreported by Ilocanos who did not want to get involved as witnesses. In Ilocos Sur's capital...
...mass arrests of African nationalists, the interracial bench has little impact even as a token of intention. In South Africa, where the police are strong and the blacks still leaderless, the system may last for years to come. Elsewhere, the chief pastime of the African politician is to draw up timetables...
...made no effort to counter the anti-French and anti-German shrillness in Fleet Street. Said one British official : "The only effect of the popular press that we are worried about is the effect it has through requotation abroad." In a week when Moscow's Izvestia could draw on Fleet Street for propaganda material, these effects were perhaps worth more worry than British statesmen and publishers had yet given them...
...director has caught some visual excitement in Paris, his camera is mostly cold and apathetic. But the pic ture is blessed with urbane Gallic polish, some satiric set pieces, and another en gaging performance by Actor Gabin, who at 55 is still the No. 1 male box-office draw of French films...