Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agents kept watch on the house for hours, awaiting Sam's release. As the time dragged on, the fearful Bronfman family finally agreed that he should be rescued. Guns drawn, local police and 30 FBI agents rushed into the first-floor apartment at 4 a.m. They found Lynch, who offered no resistance, although a .45 automatic was near by. More important, Sam was indeed there, blindfolded and bound. He was undernourished, but well. He had spent the entire time in the apartment, usually tied to a bed or chair...
...They were not me and I could never be them." This wholly false conclusion is drawn by the author on his self-styled "voyage" backward through memory, history and time itself. "I" is Michael J. Arlen, the New Yorker critic and memoirist; "they" are Armenians, an obscure folk of Asia Minor who happen to be his blood relatives. For despite an elegant Anglo-American breeding, despite the aristocratic postures of his father, Michael Arlen is the son of Dikran Kouyoumjian, few generations removed from the peasant villages of Transcaucasia...
...year after the fall, Richard Nixon remains wan and drawn. At age 62, he tires easily and goes to bed early. He has developed high blood pressure. He continues to take daily injections of anticoagulant drugs to fend off any recurrence of his phlebitis. In his thoughts, he often indulges in moments of self-pity. He feels he has been deserted by many of his onetime friends. He considers himself Watergate's wronged victim rather than its chief villain. He blames the media, his political enemies and bad advice from former aides for his unique role in history...
...Governing Boards do not meet until September and no dockets have been drawn up yet for the meetings...
Quint, the shark catcher, initially dismisses his partners' charges of divine intelligence or beauty as hogwash. "Don't make him out to be more than he is. He's just a dumb garbage bucket." But as the chase goes on, he finds himself more drawn to the fish, almost hypnotized into the death duel. "Brody saw fever in Quint's face--a heat that lit up his dark eyes, an intensity that drew his lips back from his teeth in a crooked smile, an anticipation that strummed the sinews in his neck and whitened his knuckles." To Quint the fish...