Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhibits had been copied on Hiss's typewriter. Feehan pointed professorially to enlargements of the documents, pointed out the "upthrust terminating stroke of the lower-case V " and other peculiarities as proof of his finding. It was effective evidence and it was also dull. But as the weekend drew near Murphy called a witness who restored the electric atmosphere in which the trial had begun...
...basic problems that had blocked an Austrian peace treaty. The West gave in to a Russian demand for $150 million, payable in six years. Russia would not claim any additional "German assets" in Austria, but would keep the ones she had already seized. In exchange, the Russians with drew their support of a Yugoslav claim to some Austrian territory and reparations. The Yugoslavs would long ago have given up their claim had Russia not deliberately kept it alive for bargaining purposes...
Berman, Ronald, Stanley, Cairus, David Drew, Durakis, Charles Anthony, Ellis, Jack Thomas, Geick, Harold William (Captain), Gregory, David Palache, Grutzner, Edward Ehlers, Hunt, Roger Browne, Master, Alan Harold, McGrath, Thomas Joseph, McLaughlin, James Lachlan, Murphy, Gerald Dale, Ravreby, Frederick Aaron, Rubin, Richard Herschel, Scudder, Thayer, Weiskopf, Richard Walter, Cooper, Paul Fenimore, Jr. (Manager...
...flair for the right word in a tight spot. On Kwajalein after V-J day, an audience of G.I.'s greeted him with the chant, "When do we go home?" McCloy feigned deafness, cupped an ear, cried, "What's that? I can't hear you." It drew a laugh and eased the tension. In Nicaragua, while International Bank president, he was taken to a ballgame by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. The third baseman was wild. Later, at a banquet, the local after-dinner speakers kept asking for money from the guest of honor's Bank. When McCloy...
Smaller Margin. Publisher James H. McGraw Jr. (McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.) also drew a bead on the Administration. He accused Harry Truman of causing the current power shortage in the Northwest by short-circuiting power projects. The result is that the area "may be set back for a long time to come...