Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs grabbed a middle-aged storekeeper, according to Father Lebel, looped a rope around his neck and drew it down between his legs, forcing his head down to the level of his knees. "Then they made him trot along ahead of them, like some great clumsy dog on a leash. After they had gone about three miles, they got tired of the sport. One Japanese . . . took his sword and chopped off the man's head. Then all the Japanese casually sat down to lunch a few feet away...
Lean, acid, troublemaking Drew Pearson, famed Merry-Go-Round, keyhole columnist, got himself into a little more trouble than usual last week. John R. Monroe, host of the briefly renowned Red House on R Street (TIME, May 17), slapped a $1,000,000 libel suit on him, another for $350,000 on the Washington Post, which published the special Pearson article, for defamation of character. Meanwhile a posse of anti-Fourth Term Senators, mad enough to slap him with something else, contented themselves with giving the lie to another Pearson story...
...Science. From this phase of his experiments, Psychologist Wolff drew a few significant conclusions: since everyone has some conflicting traits, which show up in contradictions in his appearance, a person's character can be read much more reliably from a combination of elements than from any single one (such as the face or handwriting); actors and artists, who relied on a general impression, were better at character-reading than scientists or philosophers, who relied more on analysis...
...soldier in the Middle East drew a cartoon for the Stars & Stripes. We will tell you what the cartoon portrayed. John L. Lewis, in miner's dress, was throwing dirt with a coal shovel upon the freshly marked grave of some kid in North Africa. . . . God knows it expressed the attitude of the overwhelming majority of soldiers in this and any other theater...
This maiden manifesto drew a sharp reply last week from able Paul White, news chief of CBS's newscasting organization. He reminded the pundits of a few differences between newspapers and the radio. The number of newspapers which can be published is limited only by the will to enterprise, but the number of radio stations is limited by the frequencies available, which are scarce. That means, said White, that radio is less able to guarantee an adequate hearing to people whose opinions differ from those of the pundits. White continued...