Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drew a second-tier starting position, came from behind a scrambled crush of onrushing sulkies to get clear, then settled down to coast home. But it was not quite that simple. Approaching the wire, Driver Pownall looked back to see Axomite come thudding alongside. With a few deft, desperate flicks of his whip, Pownall shifted Titan into high and crossed the line half a length in front. Said Pownall later: "It was the first time I ever hit Titan. I hated to do it, but I had to. He's used to finishing two or three lengths ahead...
...Politically, they represent all shades from "extreme reactionary" (Fulton Lewis Jr.) to "liberal" (Frank Kingdon). "Changeable" in ideology: Scooper Drew Pearson. "Old-fashioned conservative" but "well qualified as an analyst": H. V. Kaltenborn...
Marlene Dietrich, back after eleven months of USOing in Europe, greeted returning soldiers of the 44th Division by standing at the end of a Manhattan pier and waving a leg at them. She drew a deafening roar and a blizzard of coins. Then she had herself boosted to a porthole and really got down to cases (see cut). In Europe, she recalled, her most effective line was just, " 'Hello, boys'-I would just walk out on the stage, say that, and the house would come down. I don't know...
This desert-fighting phase first brought out in Wavell an urge to express himself Biblically to his officers, a habit he developed to a high degree in his later Middle East campaigns. For a warning against unexpected rainy seasons in desert climates, he drew on Elijah's message to Ahab in I Kings, 18:44 ("Prepare thy chariot and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not"). The danger of floods in Palestine he underlined with a quotation from Jeremiah 12:5 ("How wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?"). The folly of expecting military assistance...
...Slated for Moscow was an amateur ornithologist and part-time farmer, the sensitive and erudite dean of Manhattan's drama critics, Brooks Atkinson, who learned about foreign reporting in censorship-cramped Chungking. (When Broadway calls Atkinson again, Drew Middleton, not so long ago an obscure A.P.man and now the Times's "find" of the war, was likely to move in from Germany to succeed...