Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seventh year of Indonesian independence drew to a close, the world's fourth largest democracy (pop. 80 million) was behaving something like a banana republic. "I am certain," said Indonesia's handsome President Soekarno, in a sharp departure from his customary exuberance, "that if this sickly situation persists, conditions will become ripe for a revolution...
...Egypt was to clear the canal. Arriving in Cairo with 19 other experts under U.N. auspices, Lieut. General Raymond A. Wheeler, U.S.A. (ret.) drew up plans to turn over the job to a consortium of three U.S., Danish and Dutch firms. When the British and French protested at exclusion of the 18-ship salvage fleet that was already at work raising wrecks at Port Said, General Wheeler cautiously suggested that six of Britain's salvage ships might be used-without their British crews. This was too much for First Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Hailsham who huffed that Wheeler...
Only one detail was amiss: the show's plot was obvious. From the start it was clear that John George Diefenbaker, 61, of Prince Albert, Sask. would be elected leader of Canada's major opposition party. Ever since George Drew resigned because of ill health. Diefenbaker had been the front runner to replace him (TIME, Oct. 1). Diefenbaker did not campaign for the job and refused to ask a single delegate to vote for him. But support piled up steadily and weeks before the convention opened, there was little doubt that Lawyer Diefenbaker would win on the first...
...basketball team drew its largest and noisiest audience to date last night when an estimated 75 inmates of the shiny new Walpole Penitentiary watched the Crimson collect its fourth straight...
...doing its earnest, if at times disorganized, best to meet the Hungarians' needs, and to make its position clear to the world. When Russian tanks drew up before the U.S. legation in Budapest to intimidate Hungarians who were seeking American aid, Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy called in the Russian embassy's Counsel Sergei Striganov in Washington, condemned the Soviet action, called it a reflection of the "deplorable situation in Hungary." demanded that his message be brought "immediately to the attention of the Soviet government...