Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...felt sure that if society-or the press itself-limited "the liberty to degrade," it would be doing a favor to the offenders as well as to itself. Lest his idea of a "light touch of government" sound too frightening to the press, Hocking drew an analogy to another kind of freedom which submitted to self-discipline and gained by it: "There is nothing freer, in our age, than the inquiry of science. Yet no one is free to be a scientist on his own version of the multiplication table...
Jerome Weidman's noisy talents have been devoted to proving that life in his native New York City is a rat race between the stinkers and the saps. In I Can Get It for You Wholesale and What's In It for Me? Weidman drew a picture of the garment district so snarlingly unpleasant that his publishers for a time refused to let them be reprinted, fearing that they helped spread antiSemitism. In a collection of short stories, The Horse That Could Whistle Dixie, he boiled a whole gallery of cheap-flash characters in skunk oil. Weidman...
...midnight drew near, crowds jammed the Senate galleries like spectators at a dance marathon. The House had finished its work with a comfortable margin; its members were lustily singing barbershop chords and happily contemplating a five-month vacation...
Last week, Monrovia was flag-decked and floodlit as it embarked, with prayer and fireworks, on three weeks of fortissimo festivities. The era of the mammy-chair formally drew to a close; the U.S. made Liberia a birthday gift of a brand-new, $18,000,000 port (a miracle financed by Lend-Lease funds...
Backed by a powerful domestic sugar-growers' lobby, the Sugar Act of 1948 was quietly ushered through Congress; until the final stages, it hardly drew a fly. But last week, just a few days before the House-approved bill was sent to the Senate,* an angry buzz was heard. Cried the Wall Street Journal: "A legal monopoly [for which] the consumer is to pay." Charged the New York Times: "A cartel! Written by the sugar industry for the sugar industry...