Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zinaida, flanked by three bodyguards, stepped off the liner Queen Mary in Manhattan, where Vishinsky will soon take up his cudgel again as chief Soviet delegate to the U.N. At first, Vishinsky claimed that he had no arrival speech prepared. But when newsmen cajoled him, he beamed and shyly drew out a little slip of paper. Sample: "I should like to express my hope that the American press, radio and other organizations will support the efforts of all honest men in their struggle for peace, international security and friendship." Growled the New York Daily News: "When Vishy smiles, watch...
...press-conference question about open Chinese Communist threats to "liberate" Formosa (TIME, Aug. 23) drew from President Eisenhower last week the slow-spoken comment that if the Reds tried to invade the Nationalist island, they would have to "run over" the U.S. Seventh Fleet...
State Department analysts drew a sober conclusion from his remarks: one part party line (but not entirely, since the party here never credits the U.S. with peaceful intentions), one part alcohol...
...Rome, Egypt's ex-King Farouk interrupted his leering and prancing long enough to roll into a fashionable nightclub, where he drew up a chair beside an old Manhattan cabaret songstress named Spivy, bellowed duets with her for an hour and topped off the act with a Swiss yodeling version of Don't Fence Me In. Spivy's impression of Farouk's yodeling: "Squeaking in a high falsetto...
Object Lesson. In Norwalk, Conn., City Councilmen Herman Cinque Jr. and William Murray drew up alongside a police car at 3 a.m.. delivered a brief lecture on the duties of the constabulary, were promptly arrested for disturbing the peace...