Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...institute on oil and gas law, which this year drew more than 800 lawyers from the U.S. and the oil and gas provinces of Canada...
...gathered in Geneva's ornate Palais des Nations to deal with a problem which presumably was settled in the 19th century. The idea was to adopt a new international convention against "slavery, the slave trade and institutions and practices similar to slavery," but this week as the conference drew to a close, it proved impossible for nations of the world to cooperate effectively to abolish the most primitive form of human bondage...
...orchestra brought along one of its trustees, Boston Insurance Broker Michael T. Kelleher. Before the concert began last week in the 1,500-seat Savoy Theater, Mike Kelleher drew cheers when he spoke of his father who had emigrated to the U.S. from County Cork. Then the orchestra set its gesture to music, opened its program with U.S. Composer Leroy Anderson's Irish Suite, a collection of slick arrangements of Irish tunes...
...announcement of New Jersey's 36-vote break to Stevenson actually came eight hours after the Michigan switch−but New Jersey was the absolute cruncher. When it happened, a top Harriman aide silently drew his finger across his throat...
Pieces of Paper. E.O.K.A.'s offer caught both friends and foes by surprise. In Athens the Greek government, long at loggerheads with Britain over Cyprus, promptly drew up a communiqué praising E.O.K.A.'s "noble decision," then in a rush of doubt held it up for 24 hours on the ground that the leaflets might not be authentic. The British government's first reaction was equally cautious. "You must remember," said a British spokesman, "that this is only one man's offer, and it came from pieces of paper scattered in the street...