Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ignoring the moral he had drawn from Gaillard's harmonious smoke, Greek Delegate Verdelis cried: "We have been most unfairly treated...
...afternoon session on the convention's last day, after the party's platform has been drawn up, Gordon Fogo will read the names of the nominees to the convention. He hopes to read the names fast enough to block any unseemly demonstration. Says Fogo in a political paraphrase of a classic line: "In my job you have to be like Caesar's wife, playing no favorites...
...kuan stretch of all, the notorious Liu Ho Ko, or Willow River Ditch. This no man's land belongs to bandits who dress in yellow jackets and black pants, carry white knapsacks and oiled-paper umbrellas. They lie in wait along a willow-lined ditch, jump up with drawn revolvers, shout, "Don't make trouble! Hand over your money!" Those who have no money are cursed and beaten...
...linked sweetness long drawn out, the last bright notes of a Haydn string quartet drifted out of the hall. The first violinist stood up, walked to the center of the University of California's Wheeler Hall stage, and paused for quiet to make an announcement. "Last night," he said, "one of the greatest artists of quartet music, Robert Maas, died.* We owe him a tremendous debt . . . our next number will be in his memory." Then the four fiddlers of the Griller String Quartet played "Consummatum Est" from Haydn's Seven Words of Christ on the Cross; they played...
...taken the little money her father had left her, walked out on her domineering spinster roommate in London and bought a lonesome cliffside house on the Cornish coast. In her second novel, British Author Jon Godden* has drawn a terrifying picture of the consequences of Edwina's loneliness, a warning of the psychological perils that beset those humans who cannot make their terms with humanity...