Word: drew
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Aycock then drew a parallel between compulsory health insurance and compulsory education. "A long time ago," he said, "society decided that education was good and that everyone, whether or not he could afford it or had the sense to get it, should get education. The need for health care is similarly desirable--what is the sense of educating a boy if he dies...
...first session of the plane geometry class at Pomona (Calif.) High School, the teacher, "Old Man Bartlett," drew an intricate problem on the blackboard. "This problem," he announced, "contains all the geometric theorems I am going to teach you in this course. If any of you can solve it before the end of the semester, he will automatically...
...then drew his own composite picture of the unknown diarist-a tall man, an important individual, friendly with Seward, Sumner, Douglas and lesser figures such asr William Aspinwall and James Orr, a man of the world, with a good knowledge of the French language, a strong Unionist with many Southern friends, a man with many business interests and a wide acquaintance in New York City, and-above all-a man who had been in New York City on Feb. 20, 1861, and in Washington on some 20 days between Dec. 28, 1860 and March...
...Deaton later recalled it: "Middleton came out just as we got there. He drew two guns and shot. I threw one on him and the shooting really began. I shot eight shots, Combs ten shots. There were 33 in all." Middleton died with ten bullets in him. Deaton, wounded slightly in the hip, was taken to the hospital...
Communist General Lin Piao followed hard on Fu's heels, drew a siege ring around the city. By week's end both airfields outside the city walls were in Communist hands. Electricity and water lines were cut. Food prices doubled and tripled; fresh vegetables and meat almost disappeared from the markets...