Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more locked in full combat (see THE WORLD). With the U.S. finally disengaged from its ordeal in Viet Nam and embarked on hopeful new relations with the Communist superpowers, that elusive generation of peace had suddenly seemed more than a wistful illusion. Much of the nation's population, drawn by both fear and fascination to the unprecedented personal travail of the President and Vice President, had turned its attention inward, where so many neglected problems demanded action. The tidings of Yom Kippur, the Jewish High Holiday, were a grim reminder that the world beyond is part and parcel...
...handling of the terrorists, however, is one hurdle he has not cleared. The unexpected criticism he has drawn from Austrian intellectuals and from abroad has made him unusually defensive. "No one can criticize my decision," he told TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron. "No one but I was in the situation and no one else had to live with the consequences. To permit the hostages to leave the country would have meant certain death, and I was willing to do everything to get them released...
Agnew, his face drawn and his hands trembling, admitted to the court that he received payments in 1967 which he "failed to report for the purposes of income taxation." He said he knew the money should have been reported...
Library planners have not adequately considered the impact of the estimated 1 million tourists who will be drawn yearly to the exhibition of Kennedy's magic and splendor displayed in the imposing library-museum. The resulting traffic and parking problems, as well as the economic metamorphosis already evident a year before the scheduled groundbreaking, are enough to suggest that the library should find a home away from this crowed area...
...policemen trained in the United States the year before. In the meantime, Vietnamese continue to die in skirmishes between Saigon and NLF troops, and Vietnamese prisoners from the Saigon government's jails continue to tell stories of their treatment: "The two hands of the woman are tied together and drawn up to the ceiling," four Vietnamese from Thu Duc prison wrote in 1970. "The police then twirl her around, beating her until she is unconscious...