Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sampling of recent front pages saw a re-enactment of an 1830 race between a horse-drawn train and a vintage locomotive given prominent play in the Baltimore Sun. As in 1830, the horse won. Late editions of the Los Angeles Times featured a lead story documenting a less-than-earth-shaking expose of the low standards for scuba-diving instruction, and the Bismarck (N. Dak.) Tribune snagged readers with a seven-column head declaring: FEWER SPECIAL DEER PERMITS AVAILABLE. The Swing is a slightly manic but welcome return to normalcy after a grateful escape from the long hail...
...blueprint that Ford is following is a 23-page report that was drawn up by four members of his transition team, all old and trusted friends: former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, NATO Ambassador Donald Rumsfeld, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton and White House Counsellor John O. Marsh Jr. The four were careful to sound out the views of the Cabinet and a wide circle of Ford's advisers and confidants, including Melvin Laird, the former Congressman and Secretary of Defense; Bryce Harlow, an aide to both Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Nixon; and Michigan's Robert Griffin, G.O.P. whip...
Where should the line be drawn? Everything hinges on the answer to that question. At the prompting of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Ecevit has promised "reasonable" concessions and says that he is willing to give up some of the ground won by his troops. The issue is complicated by the fact that the Turkish-held territory contains something like 70% of the island's wealth-producing farms, factories and tourist facilities, most of which are owned by Greeks, not to mention the island's only deepwater port, Famagusta...
...entering Radcliffe students, you will be drawn into the Freshman Core program, which places each woman in a small group of her classmates headed by a woman faculty member or administrator. There are no guarantees that you will like the people, that you automatically need a support group or a role model, but the point is that they are there if you do need them...
...league's credibility but helped obscure signs of genuine fan support. Football enthusiasts in Birmingham, Ala., who tried unsuccessfully for eight years to land an N.F.L. franchise, have braved bad weather to greet the Birmingham Americans with an average paid attendance of 43,000. The W.F.L. has also drawn respectable TV ratings (averaging about 8 million viewers per week) with its midweek evening games on TVS, an independent television network...