Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students who refused to register for the draft drew his rebuke, also the warning that Union would not become "a haven for draft dodgers." No admirer of Communism (he said Union could not be made "the guinea pig for some future Soviet"), he admires the Russian people enough to be vice president of Russian War Relief. Through his efforts, Union's board last year elected a Negro minister to membership, first major U.S. seminary...
...rise to radio fame. The face in the film was not the pinched, knife-scarred face of Lara, Mexico's most popular songwriter. The producers had taken one look at that and decided to give the role to the handsome singer Ramón Armengod. But what drew throngs to the box office was Lara's fantastic personal reputation and that of his 800 fevered, insinuating songs...
Stangest part of the time we've spent here (and that seems to be unanimous) was the period between Friday and Tuesday morning. We relaxed. We drew bed linen. We sang songs over at the student club. We sang songs over at the student club. We relaxed. We drew case books. We asked the senior class of midshipmen about the case books. Then our relaxation was over. They only laughed...
...Massachusetts four times, was elected on his fifth try, subsequently reelected. He approved a bill which carved a state senatorial district in Essex County into an absurd shape, but gave the Federalists no chance of winning. At a Federalist rally, an artist (legend says it was Gilbert Stuart) drew a head, wings and claws on a map of the district, shouted: "That will do for a salamander." Cried a voice in the crowd: "Gerrymander...
Thompson's salvo drew counterfire from N.Y.U.'s Professor Alonzo F. Myers. Said...