Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wears conservative suits, has been with the school for 35 years, serving as director for the past 20. The tall, craggy director wears thick glasses and walks with a slight stoop. He stresses that there is no relation between his name and the school's, which was drawn from the name of the building in which it was originally founded. Hall downplays his own role within the school, claiming that the board of trustees makes all the important decisions. He says that the board has three members, but declines to identify them...
...recently Franco could count on the army to support his most repressive policies. But since Franco's first illness, a reform movement has developed among middle level officers. The generals remain old-style fascists--Franco's companions in arms during the civil war--but these officers, most of them drawn from the middle class, have professional grievances about political favoritism and demand radical democratic measures...
Johnson said Ebony has drawn much criticism for being "a black version" of Life. Johnson admitted that Ebony was styled after Life, but added, "Magazines like Life and the New Republic take themselves too seriously, and provide too much text. We draw attention by providing entertainment, and once we get the readers we try to educate them...
Brandeis' choice of Penthouse publisher Robert Guccione as "Publisher of the Year" has drawn a storm of protests from student groups at the university...
Secrecy is strictly adhered to. No minutes of Cabinet meetings were taken until 1916. Even today minutes aren't drawn up until after Cabinet meetings, so that only the Prime Minister's summation--and not the arguments that went before it--are recorded. Bagehot's dictum that "no minister who respected the fundamental usages of political practice" would make public the inner workings of Cabinet debate remains valid to this day. So far, Crossman is the only major figure who has challenged...