Word: drawed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nonprofit Citizens' Council was formed last year "to protect and preserve by all legal means our historical Southern social institutions." The parish (county) registrar let council members into her office when it was closed to the general public (nights, holidays, etc.), let them examine voting lists and draw up their own lists of some 3,500 Negro registrants. When the council members followed up by challenging the 3,500, the registrar ordered the Negroes to appear within ten days to prove their identity. So many Negroes did turn up that the registrar had to fall back upon yet another...
...announced that its old rival, the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq, has granted it permission to tap the Iraqi river Euphrates for drinking water. Under their $28 million plan, cleared during King Saud's state visit to Baghdad last May, the oil-rich Saudis will hire international contractors to draw some 35 million gallons daily at a point near the site of ancient Ur, purify it at the riverside plant, and pipe it some 450 miles across the gravel plains, the heat-parched desert and rocky ridges to the ancestral Saudi oasis that has mushroomed into the modern, air-conditioned...
Added-"Easy Draw." Wynder's and other laboratory studies have shown that most filter-tip brands are as bad as. in many cases actually worse than, old-fashioned untipped cigarettes of regular length, because 1) the filters catch only a minimum of tar. and 2) to get the flavor through the filter, the manufacturers have taken to using stronger tobacco, which produces more...
With a nationwide ad blast in the newspapers. P. Lorillard Co. last week announced that it had improved the filter in its Kent cigarettes to give "significantly less tars and nicotine . . . plus easy draw." Though Lorillard did not mention the word "health" in its ads. or Dr. Wynder's specifications, it appeared to meet those specifications. A Kent regular, it claimed, passes 17 milligrams of tar and 1.36 milligrams of nicotine through its filter; the king size passes 21 milligrams of tar. 1.7 milligrams of nicotine (an independent laboratory got slightly higher readings for the tar. lower for nicotine...
Apples and Eclairs. "Overflowing with life and activity," wrote one of her secretaries, "she glows with physical joy, hugging to her strong heart every thing that quivers with life, in order to embrace it, crush it, draw the very marrow out of it . . . In . . . intervals passive, idling and greedy, she munches apples . . . disembowels chocolate eclairs arranges the fire . . lights some sticks of what she calls 'smell-good.' These flames and the smoke intoxicate...