Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This group listened to some 200 witnesses, including psychiatrists, scientists, soldiers, students, teachers, youth leaders, then drew up a hair-raising preview of World War III as a basis for their recommendations. In the preview: atom-bombing planes flying at supersonic speed; chemical and bacteriological warfare; destruction laid down overnight that would equal the destruction in Germany after three and a half years of saturation bombing...
...famed Greenville lynch trial (TIME, May 26) drew to an end. On the ninth day, haggard from strain, Judge James Robert Martin Jr. read his instructions to the all-male, all-white jury. He minced no words: "A court of law recognizes no color. . . . I instruct you . . . not to allow any so-called racial issue to enter into your deliberations. . . ." The jurors filed out. A door closed behind them...
...conferences, never knows what contributions to expect until they arrive, and fills last-minute gaps by diving into the fat "unsolicited" file from readers all over the Empire. Knox does not worry about one important part of Punch: the cover has been the same since 1849, when Richard Doyle drew the now famous sketch of Punch and his dog Toby. It was adopted by Mark Lemon, the first of Punch's editors (his colleagues used to pun: "What would Punch be without Lemon...
Died. Col. William J. L. Lyster, 77, retired U.S. Army doctor, inventor (1916) of the "Lyster Bag," a large, rubberized, udder-like canvas container from which soldiers in both World Wars drew thoroughly purified, highly unpalatable water; in Washington...
John Gunther, the most successful living practitioner of his kind of journalism (a mixture of Burton Holmes, Drew Pearson, Walter Winchell and the World Almanac) is highly readable. His writing is brisk and breezy. It is also glib, superficial, exaggerated, full of impressions passing as insights and facts palmed off as truths. This is probably the best of his books, certainly the best since Inside Europe, which had some excellent eyewitness reporting of Austria in the turbulent days of Dollfuss...