Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously hopeful of landing a future Cabinet job or at least of becoming his state's senior Senator, Oregon's junior Democratic Senator Richard L. Neuberger drew guffaws on Capitol Hill by solemnly proclaiming the formation of the National Friends of Wayne Morse, Oregon's senior Democratic Senator already chasing his party's 1960 presidential nomination. Chuckled one Washington wag: "Dick should have called it the National Friends of Richard Neuberger...
...Daily News snapped up the A.P. series. The Sun-Times countered with the U.P. series. The Tribune hastily put together its own nine-part FBI story, beat the A.P.'s release date on using material from Whitehead's book. Though the Tribune claimed FBI cooperation, the series drew heavily on Whitehead's book for the first three installments, then turned to rewriting FBI stories in the Trib's morgue...
...struggle was fought with blood transfusions, morphine injections, intravenous feeding, catheterizations. The child was wrenched with pain, grew more and more emaciated as bedsores spread across her sensitive skin, and it became increasingly difficult to find places to insert the daily needles. But there were pauses, too, when death drew back as if exhausted. There were enough of these precious moments for the creation of rituals. Each night mother and daughter watched for the flights of starlings that flooded past their window. After the starlings came the lights of the city laying a pattern of dazzle across Manhattan...
...Soul Sleep." William Miller never subscribed to this face-saving concept, but many onetime Millerites from many Protestant groups drew together around...
...Graham's original $2,950,000 endowment drew so little revenue during Depression years that the foundation waited 20 years to start operations...