Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred thousand Athenians watched as Sophoulis' casket was drawn to burial by an armored car. "Come to give him the last kiss," intoned Athens' Archbishop Spyridon during the funeral service. The King and Queen stepped up and kissed the casket; Frederika had tears in her eyes...
...black Packard with drawn shades stopped before the palaitial brick building that once housed Japan's governor general in Taipei, capital of Formosa. Behind it rolled a Buick convertible full of bodyguards. They stood aside watchfully as , Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek hurried inside the building to confer with his old military pupil, now Formosa's Nationalist governor, greying General Chen Cheng...
...Elsie Bambridge, fiftyish, daughter of Rudyard Kipling, clamped down on publication of her father's biography, which she herself had ordered written. The author, the Earl of Birkenhead, who had put in three years on the 160,000-word manuscript, said: "We had disagreed" on certain conclusions drawn from facts, "but I did not know she planned to ban it entirely." Said she: "It's my own affair and I do not wish to answer questions about...
...another obstacle-a shortage of German capital to buy them. Much of the available capital in Germany was controlled by the cartelists. But the Military Government hoped that enough safeguards could be set up to keep the plants from being secretly bought by the old cartelists or being drawn into new cartels...
...despite the earnest statement of the editors that it is "one which, we are confident, is of much importance and will be of interest to most students," it is precisely because the article is a piece of reporting that it doesn't belong. There are no conclusions drawn, only statements of alleged fact--not at all what one is looking for or what one expects to find in such a magazine as the Advocate...