Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lottery tickets, go to Government movie theaters. Druggists, doctors, lawyers, justices of the peace, hundreds of Government employes declined to work. Railroad workers struck. The schools, the National University were closed; both students and staff stayed away. Priests supported the movement. A mass for the souls of the executed drew huge crowds, was stopped by police...
With Wayne Taylor came short, balding Ugo Carusi, executive assistant to the U.S. Attorney General; with Sewell Avery were two top company executives. Out of his briefcase Wayne Taylor drew a certified copy of the Presidential order directing the Secretary of Commerce to take over operation of Montgomery Ward & Co. "for the successful prosecution...
Like Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull, Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar considers Columnist Drew Pearson a liar. Last week on the Senate floor the feuding, 75-year-old Tennessean said so, 23 times, in a speech covering three and a half pages of the Congressional Record...
...rafts Lieut. Newel Putnam Wyman of Canandaigua, N.Y., weak with cold and exhaustion, saw what was coming. He made up his mind too. As the Catalina, with sparks winnowing from her pipes, drew near, he gave the signal all Navy pilots know: the wave of the arms that means "Don't land...
...drew near, crushing responsibility settled back upon the handful of top commanders. For the Germans, it fell most heavily on two field marshals, able hoodlum Erwin Rommel and able Junker Gerd von Rundstedt. They were hard at work on their checkup of garrisons, driving their staffs to perfect the plans for the 50-odd divisions they will have in the West on Dday...