Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SHAPE Commander Al Gruenther. Swiss civilians who happened to have their hands in their pockets when the President passed were startled to have husky U.S. Secret Service men grab them and pull their hands clear. At the Palais des Nations, Britain's Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden drew up quietly in a Rolls-Royce, France's Edgar Faure in a little Citroën. But Ike's car swept up preceded and followed by carloads of hard-eyed Secret Service men, scanning the crowd watchfully. While the cars were still moving, the men leaped out to form...
...took aim, reared back and fired. The ball whistled in. It looked just as small and twice as lively as a drop of water dancing on a hot griddle. All afternoon, the Cards collected only eight hits, turned them into three thin runs. Not a man among them drew a walk. The Dodgers, meanwhile, scored twelve times. In five times at bat the versatile Newk got two singles, a double, and a tremendous homer into the right field stands...
...walk again after an attack of diphtheria had paralyzed him from the waist down. But when the Denver Post sponsored a "Quatre Arts" ball at which Ted and his teacher performed a decorous waltz, respectable folk-Methodist or not-were horrified. One of Ted's fraternity brothers quietly drew him aside for a brotherly dressing down. "Men," he said with finality, "don't dance...
...July day in 1789, a swarm of sweaty, shouting men armed with muskets, staves and pikes, stormed the grim Bastille, prison of French kings. The triumphant revolutionists proudly drew up a Declaration of Rights "for all men, for all lands, for all times, and to give an example to the world." From that day, in the flood tide of the Enlightenment, France took to itself the role of custodian of liberty and torchbearer to mankind...
...Brighton Baths. It was not until her mother remarried for money that Elinor was able to put her social training to use. With her red hair, green eyes, and powder-white face, she drew men in Paris and London like so many iron filings. When she was 26, four house-partying young gallants threw each other into a lake at 3 a.m., competing for her favors. This intrigued a longtime socialite bachelor named Clayton Glyn, who decided Elinor was just the girl for him. Elinor, in turn, took one look at his prematurely silvered hair and aristocratic bloodlines and decided...