Word: drawn
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...crop in a decade. Countless tons of grapes were on their way to wineries in California. The far West's army of "fruit tramps" picked apples in Washington's Wenatchee and Yakima Valleys. In Illinois, Iowa and Indiana, the greatest corn crop in history awaited picking. Tractor-drawn drills were seeding wheat in the fields of Kansas and Nebraska. Sweating cowhands and their sweating mounts were cutting herds in the Southwest...
...Line Drawn. The Southerner talks about his personal solicitude for the Negro, but to the Northerner it seems much closer to the solicitude of the master for his slave than to the friendliness of neighbor toward neighbor. What most Southerners seem to deny the Negro is human dignity, even in such small ways as refusing to call them "Mr." or "Mrs." "You've got to keep niggers in their place," they...
...influenced in its treatment of the dividual Negro by the ignorance of the mass But the North is too much misled the ability of a few conspicuous Negroes. Mrs. Roosevelt has been hopelessly misled because she has seen only the best. The South is going to keep the line drawn between civil rights and social privilege. Civil rights should be recognized; social privilege is a matter of individuals. The South is going to keep that line drawn and that's all there...
Permanent Crisis. From these facts, inferences and guesses, some conclusions, mostly tentative, can be drawn. Among them...
Thirty-three players came out on the first day of practice last Monday, but the number had swelled to 45 by Wednesday afternoon. Veteran field house observers were unable to remember when a preseason soccer practice had drawn more than 25 hopefuls...