Word: drawed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nervy Foe. The well-heeled rebel leaders who are financing the bomb throwing like to draw a distinction between themselves and Cuba's political gangsters of the past 25 years. In Batista they have taken on the shrewdest and nerviest veteran of the gun-slinging school. A dirt-poor lad from Oriente province, he painfully acquired the rudiments of an education, carefully plotted and led the "sergeant's revolt" that won out in 1933. He voluntarily relinquished power, a rich man, eleven years later...
...book will help to publicize the Forum's weekly discussions and also draw attention to the intellectual activity of the House, John Van Sickle '58, Chairman of the Forum, commented last night...
...author (for his bestselling Profiles in Courage). He is an athlete (during World War II his swimming skill saved his life and those of his PT-boat mates); yet his intellectual qualifications are such that his photographer wife Jacqueline remarks, in a symbolic manner of speaking: "If I were drawing him, I'd draw a tiny body and an enormous head." Kennedy is recognized as the Senate library's best customer, reads six to eight books a week, mostly on American history. No stem-winding orator ("Those guys who can make the rafters ring with hokum-well...
...Picasso: "Bad for art; he desires to destroy much of the old tradition." Of the late Henri Matisse: "A good decorator; a good designer for fabrics." Of Salvador Dali, generally regarded as one of the world's best living draftsmen: "A genius of publicity. He can't draw." His jaundiced view of abstract art: "We're watching the end of it!" What's wrong with art critics? "Most of them are too superficial...
...been doing under its tight-money policy, it digs into its $23.3 billion portfolio of Government securities and sells them on the open market, to either the general public or anyone else (banks, dealers, insurance companies) that wants to buy. To pay for them, the buyers draw down their bank accounts, cutting the amount of money banks can lend. To increase credit, the Fed merely has to buy securities. Its checks, deposited in banks, increase the banks' reserves and make more money available for loans. Moreover, since banks can lend $6 for each $1 held in reserves, any increase...