Word: drew
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Thorny Choice. Last year the six nations that make up the European Coal and Steel Community (Germany, France, Italy and the Benelux countries) decided it was time to make the common market more than a dream. At a meeting in Messina, Sicily their economic experts drew up plans for a customs union that, from the trade point of view, would convert the six into a single "country" with no internal tariffs and common external tariffs. Since creation of such a union would have a drastic effect on the economy of other European powers, the 17-nation Organization for European Economic...
...mass premiere, the curtains of seven major theaters in seven German cities rose on Anne Frank. At West Berlin's Schlosspark Theater, a packed opening climaxed the city's Cultural Festival. At the Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf in the rich Ruhr, the elegant opening drew a crowd in black tie and bare shoulders. Other theaters-in Hamburg, Karlsruhe. Konstanz, Aachen and East Germany's Dresden-were jammed...
When the presidents drew up their Agreement, it looked as if they wanted to reduce football in status to that of baseball, for instance. For this program had such revealing paragraphs as "They (the conditions of the Agreement) require that undue strain upon players and coaches be eliminated and that they be permitted to enjoy the game as participants in form of recreational competition rather than as professional performers in public spectacles...
Nixon's speeches were increasingly filled with sharp thrusts at the opposition ("The American people aren't going to settle for any warmed-over Truman hash when they can have Eisenhower beef and potatoes") but in nearly all appearances he drew his greatest applause with his intense portrayal of Dwight Eisenhower as a national leader who has applied his personal standards of decency to the business of government...
...sooner had Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton announced his resignation last month than rumors started about the name of his successor. Columnist Drew Pearson reported that a Negro, Judge William H. Hastie of Philadelphia's Third U.S. Court of Appeals and former governor of the Virgin Islands, was a likely candidate. At presidential press conferences, reporters badgered Ike on the possibilities of a Southern appointee to salve bitter feelings over the segregation issue, or perhaps a New Englander, to get a wider geographical spread on the court...