Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adults who, regardless of politics, would walk miles to see a Hollywood star, and we have a crowd made up, in great part, of movie admirers, not Dewey voters. "Ginger Rogers will introduce" were magic words. Yes, it was the stars (their attendance advertised days in advance) who drew 'the crowd. . . . Without them, Dewey would have faced a half-empty Coliseum...
Behind this ring of fire, the operator could watch until some soldier drew near, then touch off a hellish burst. Allied officials said the weapon shot a jet flame 15 yards, where it ballooned out into a ball of fire 40 yards in diameter. Jerry called it the Abwehrflammenwerfer (defensive flame-thrower...
...commander in chief of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force, the R.A.F.'s bland, handsome Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory drew no shouts of admiration from U.S. and British airmen, who are used to close teamwork in other theaters. He was an exception to the rule that U.S. flyers regard their opposite R.A.F. numbers as tops in friendly cooperation and red-tapeless administrative skill...
...taproom of Ye Old Queen Anne's Castle Inn, one of several "oldest hostelries" in the county, Landlord Alfred Sykes drew pint after pint for inquisitive reporters from London, told them of awesome doings. "Last night the church clock turned two hours slow, which never happened before. . . . Then there was old Chipping's rabbits. One of them-ain't this witchcraft?-he found setting on eggs in his chicken coop. . . . And Mrs. Warren's books. There's a respectable widow woman for you, and a friend o' mine. All her books changed jackets...
...Drew Pearson, who has long hobnobbed with top-drawer Washington society, was unceremoniously dropped from the just-issued 1945 edition of the swank Washington Social List. The explanation: sharp-sniping, chitchatting Columnist Pearson "gets into too many controversies and has trodden on too many toes...