Word: drawed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herter married Mary Caroline Pratt, daughter of a staid and wealthy Standard Oil family (they now have three sons and a daughter), and took his bride to Switzerland, where he was on State Department assignment to help draw up a prisoner-of-war agreement. After that he went to the Versailles Conference, officially as a secretary but unofficially as hearing aide to U.S. Delegate Joseph Clark Grew, who was growing increasingly deaf. In 1921 Herter returned to the U.S. as secretary to Commerce Secretary Herbert Clark Hoover in the Harding Administration...
These were high-flown words-and thoughts-to come from the pen of an old soldier. But they were words carefully calculated for their effect on France's restless officers. The moral that Ely and De Gaulle clearly intended them to draw: the fate of Western civilization will rest in part on the manner in which France and the French army conduct themselves in the awakening nations of France's former African empire...
...whenever Mamma glides past in skintight velvet pants. A hefty brother-in-law lounges around listening to a recording of rock 'n' roll music that he composes himself. Through it all, Johnny Cash, head of the household, relaxes in pointy Italian-leather loafers, and practices a fast draw with his Colt...
...average of $16 to $25 a day, and some of them-Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren, for example-go on to bigger things. Some of them even come back. Such Italian film and television celebrities as Mike Buongiorno, Vittorio Gassmann and Marisa del Frate pose willingly for fumetti scripts, draw as much as $20,000 for a single series-which, shot in weeks, will be doled out to an avid public for months...
...generally take the form of lyrical African love songs, of calypso duets with guitars, hardly distinguishable from their Caribbean counterparts. The most interesting of these quiet interludes involves an African lute of liquid sound and astonishing facility called a "cora." The two cora soloists are undoubtedly virtuosos, and they draw from their instruments a phenomenal number of notes during their brief performances...