Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able scholar, 2) not an American, and thus could look at Negroes with an "entirely fresh mind." Perhaps not since de Tocqueville and Bryce has the U.S. had such an analytical probing by a sharp-eyed foreigner. Sifting a mountain of documentation through a trained academic mind, Dr. Myrdal drew conclusions that will make U.S. citizens either nod or squirm...
Words Without Warning. Halifax's audience liked it. Ontario's Premier George Drew, an imperialist of the old school, led Toronto businessmen to their feet, applauding. Said he: "A great speech that may well change the thinking of our people...
...Amphibians. He needed all his self-confidence for the Solomons job. As many another middle-aged veteran was doing in the middle of a revolution in naval warfare, Turner had to write the rules as he went along. He drew his black, sardonic eyebrows down over his harsh blue eyes and went to work...
...They drew to them "the flotsam, the stragglers living on the fringe of their class . . . the unemployed . . . the declassed of all classes." In all ages, says Heiden, "this has been the way of counterrevolution: an upper layer that has lost its hold in society seeks the people and finds the rabble. The officers were out to find a demagogue, of whom it could be said that he was a worker. . . . They found their leader in the lowest mass of their subordinates. The spirit of history, in its fantastic mockery, could not have drawn an apter figure...
Energetic Dr. Newton's sermons drew big congregations to the parish; he cleared the debt, had the church renovated. St. Luke and the Epiphany is still a going parish...