Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coiling inclusiveness of a political anaconda, Winston Churchill threw a generous loop over Clement R. Attlee last week. The Prime Minister invited his No. i election opponent and the Labor Party's No. i leader to accompany him to the forthcoming Big Three conference (see INTERNATIONAL). Then he drew the loop tighter. Said Churchill: "We have in these last few years thought alike on the foreign situation." With the general election less than three weeks away, British voters could scarcely miss the point that on foreign policy there was little to choose between Churchill and Attlee...
...Japanese withdrew from their hard-won corridor through South China, the Chinese Army, cleaning up scattered resistance, cautiously advanced in their wake. Along a 180-mile front in Kwangsi Province, eager Chinese drew near to prizes they had lost a year ago-the air-base cities of Liuchow and Kweilin. This week TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White, first newsman to enter the recaptured corridor and "visit Nanning, radioed this report...
...Premier George Alexander Drew's Progressive Conservatives scored their land slide* with minority support. They got 694,166 of over a million and a half votes cast...
Meanwhile, Premier Drew, who got a big victory hug from his wife, announced that Ontario's 22nd legislature would convene within a month...
Nobody knows just what it is about Deaf Smith County, Tex. But for some reason, Deaf Smith citizens are almost immune to tooth decay (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). Last fortnight Dr. George W. Heard, the local dentist who drew national attention to Deaf Smith's perfect teeth, and Dr. F. Melton Butler of Seattle announced that they had a charter for a foundation to discover, produce and market the essence of Deaf Smith-whatever...