Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though the Socialists did not hope for many more than the 80,000 votes they had drawn in 1944, they were neither discouraged nor dismayed. They debated as though millions were listening. Cried a redheaded delegate from Michigan: "I don't want a cheap, lousy, vote-seeking bourgeois platform!" They sang the Internationale, spoke fiercely against the Communists, the Republicans and the Democrats, publicly pitied Henry Wallace.They argued wildly as to whether they should stand for pacifism, decided against...
Then the Shelleys discovered that their house was covered by a restrictive real-estate covenant which a "neighborhood improvement association" had drawn up in 1911. It prohibited any owner from selling it to a Negro...
When he found the army of General Zaragoza drawn up at Puebla, Lorencez did not even bother to maneuver for position. The Mexican priests assured him that the city hated the Juarez government more than any city in the land, and would greet his troops with flowers. Lorencez popped away briefly with his ten cannon, then ordered his men to take the fortified convent of Guadalupe...
Communists-like some Christians-tend to divide the world into white sheep and black goats (their absolutely righteous selves and their absolutely unrighteous opponents). But Christianity, unlike Communism, contains its own sources of self-correction: "Christians . . . should know that the line that is most significant is not to be drawn between themselves and their opponents, but rather right down through their own souls...
...College Scene series was initiated as an attempt to examine and to evaluate the academic and social environment of the individual in Harvard College. Previous editorials have undertaken only the preliminary examination. They have not been concerned with diagnosis or remedies. From these editorials conclusions are now to be drawn; these conclusions, in turn, will form the basis for recommendations. In order to make clear the context within which both conclusions and recommendations are to be understood, "Looking Backward" will summarize the content of the previous editorials...