Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...departure drew nearer, a state drive from Buckingham Palace to Waterloo Station was carefully rehearsed, but when the great day dawned raw and cloudy, London was blanketed with snow, virgin white on the rooftops, instantly debauched into slush on the streets. Open horse-drawn coaches were abandoned in favor of the family's cosy Daimlers. But in drab Waterloo, draped with tattered bunting, crowds stood shivering six-deep to watch the farewells. Before a royal Pullman smothered in hyacinths and cyclamen, the Queen pecked at her relatives, King George exchanged a last affable word with the Prime Minister...
...that was to whisk them (via Manhattan) to Rome for a Catholic Church wedding. Señora Vélez is the widow of Maximino Avila Camacho, fabulously wealthy brother of Mexico's wartime president. As the car with its police escort left for the airport, another car drew abreast, poured in a fusillade of 22 Tommy-gun slugs. Vélez and his wife were wounded; her sister-in-law was killed. Jailed for questioning, Luis Avila Binder, Maximino's son by another wife, charged that Señora Vélez had grabbed most of Maximino...
Little Bill Brady, whose lay-up shots were instrumental in the Crimson's early advantage, drew the starting assignment against Lawry, but was shifted after racking up four fouls in the first period...
Anti-lynching demonstrations throughout the country last month drew active H.L.U. support, and two student representatives were sent to national meetings in Washington...
Last week in London, Adamic and his publishers, Harpers, decided that they had been taken for a ride on Drew Pearson's glittering "Washington Merry-Go-Round." It cost them an estimated $20,000. It was proved in court that Churchill had never been under obligation to the bank. To every person in England who was sent a copy of the book, Harpers promised to send a correction and an apology. Author Adamic had never asked Merry-Go-Rounder Pearson to prove his statement, and had added the footnote after Harpers had accepted the final proofs...