Word: drawed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malley) "took" the country bumpkins (meaning our Dodger contract signers) makes all other such stories fade into insignificance. We are opposed to subsidizing big business, which organized baseball definitely is, and we hope those of our citizens -for and against the Dodger contract -can get together and draw up a new one. One that will allow us to have this team, but will give this city a fair share...
First, he proved to be a relative rarity among high school art teachers-an able artist. Said one student: "We never had an art teacher who could really draw before." Next, he roused the slow learners in his math course from their vegetable torpor. His method: "I told them that they had to work hard because in order for me to feel a dignity in my work I had to accomplish something, and that something was to teach them math. I said I was very interested in not wasting my time. At first they didn't believe me. They...
...girl to be a girl until she leaves school. That's quite early enough." A buyer for Daniel Neal, largest English supplier of children's uniforms, presented a different defense: "The British schoolgirl just doesn't have the sort of figure one ought to draw attention to. Her poor little tum bulging with rice pudding, you know, and no foundation garments to take care of her seat. More often than not she is covered with a thick layer of puppy fat, and we think it more tactful to keep most of her well covered...
...intellectual stamina of a champion. Sticking stubbornly to the defensive strategy that experts insisted he was constitutionally incapable of using, Botvinnik, 46, strung out the 23rd game of the tournament until World Champion Vasily Smyslov, 37, broke under the strain. Rather than resume the adjourned game, Smyslov offered a draw by telephone. This gave Botvinnik half a point and the match, 12½-10½. Thus, without even the satisfaction of a handshake, Botvinnik regained the title that he lost to Smyslov last year...
...carpenters are asking for $3.50 per hour, a 25 cent hourly increase over their present wages. With the new rates, they expect to draw $150 weekly, plus an additional four dollars each week for health and welfare benefits...