Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parrett, who lives on a Navajo reservation, answered no questions, wrote no essay, did not even hear the broadcast that made her rich. She qualified because she is a mother-in-law, and she won (over 3,000,000 others nominated by listeners) because her name happened to be drawn...
...Wallaces he has drawn (and quartered) "would find it difficult to live inside the same house together, let alone inside the same skin. . . . Henry Wallace No. 1 is a mystic, an amateur of esoteric doctrines. . . . Henry Wallace No. 2 is an opportunist, adapting himself to the pressures of the moment, ready to forswear his deepest convictions for immediate gain. . . . Wallace can only alternately express the two sides of his nature, thinking one moment like a Tibetan seer and the next like a cost accountant, acting one moment like St. Francis of Assisi and the next like Boss Hague...
...will be put forward by Flynn, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and now Democratic party leader in the Bronx. He is expected to defend the need and usefulness of political machines, and will probably parallel the argument in his recent book, "You're the Boss," which was drawn from a life spent in politics...
...afternoon a Michigan farm boy rushed home, clutching the first map he had drawn at school. His mother saw that it was marked "A." "I think you are going to be like me, Isaiah," said she. "I think you are going to like geography...
...signed by President Truman last year, but was only recently reclaimed from State Department pigeonholes. Treaties were finally drawn up last month and are currently making the rounds of foreign capitals, waiting for approval...