Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest target under Air Force sights since the Korean armistice, Alabama's overblown (248 Ibs.) Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, whose pleasure sortie in a National Guard plane to a Texas football game drew fire from the Pentagon (TIME, Dec. 12), called off a similar mission he had scheduled for New Year's Eve. Determined to take in the "Gator" Bowl game in Jacksonville, Fla., Kissin' Jim had planned to launch a grandiose air armada on the pretext of "inspectin' " the runways at a Jacksonville airport. By last week he had reconsidered, decided instead...
...seemed to hold its breath. For an instant the four-legged horse and the two-legged boy, with four good legs between them, seemed certain to go down. But Pollard had learned the hard way-in the Western bull rings-and managed to ease off. The Biscuit drew off to win . . . from his own stablemate, Kayak II. But it wasn't over yet . . . For two minutes Pollard sat uncertainly on Seabiscuit. The red board that signaled a claim of foul was up. The stewards disallowed the claim...
...birth of Mary Jean seemed to be for the President the most joyous event of the year. She drew him back from Gettysburg to the White House a day earlier than planned; she dominated the traditional holiday reception the next morning for the 700 members of the White House staff. Accompanied by Mamie Eisenhower, in a Christmas-red wool jersey dress, the President accepted congratulations beneath an 18-ft. spruce Christmas tree decorated with silver tinsel and electric candles. Everyone at the reception got a Christmas present from the new grandfather: a print of an oil painting that the President...
...last week, five more men were sentenced to prison in the city's shocking homosexual scandal (TIME. Dec. 12) in which scores of boys were involved as victims. Joe Moore, vice president of the Idaho First National Bank and a leading citizen, got seven years, and four others drew terms ranging from six months to ten years...
When Durant's optimistic expansions and mergers ran him out of cash, the bankers began talking of the "saturation point" in the auto market, and moved in on him. After Durant went out of G.M., he drew on his enormous prestige with mechanics and investors alike, to found Chevrolet as part of a plan to regain control of G.M. In little more than a year, Chevrolet was valued at a fabulous $94 million. He offered a bargain trade of five shares of Chevrolet for one of G.M., while he also bought G.M. stock (G.M. stock went from...