Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington convention to visit him-and for the next 20 minutes, held them intent. Speaking without notes, the President spoke on a subject to which he has dedicated himself: the absolute U.S. necessity for an "expanding, healthy and vigorous economy" based on a "sound dollar." In so doing, he drew on the lessons of his boyhood and early Army career, and as rarely before, he demonstrated the highly personal basis for many of his presidential policies...
...Democratic ticket, Symington replied: "Well. I think so highly of Governor Brown that I'd be more interested in how he would rate me as his.'' Glowed Brown: "You're very gracious." After the press conference. Symington spoke briefly to the California legislature, where he drew a respectful hearing-although by no means as large an audience as had Kennedy...
...attack, a moderately severe coronary occlusion, struck a fortnight ago, after Duvalier had worn himself out with a succession of 20-hour days at his desk. Just turned 50, he is also fighting diabetes and high blood pressure. To advise Duvalier's six doctors, U.S. Ambassador Gerald Drew brought in a U.S. Navy specialist in internal medicine from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and two diagnosticians from Manhattan. Drew called on the President, found him "in good spirits," complied with a presidential request for "some movies, including the one of President Eisenhower's inauguration...
Bare-Breasted Boldness. With Bell's approval, Editor Grosvenor drew a bead on the world's armchair explorers. In the name of geography he exposed the female breast, printed a 1903 study of two tawny Tagbanua belles eclipsed only to the waist by a stand of Philippine rice. Such displays became Geographic fixtures. He expanded geographical boundaries to embrace first-person travelogues from Tahiti, Siberia and the Yukon, kite construction (they were Bell's kites), the sex life of the aborigines, and skin tattoos. In 1905 he came up to a deadline with an eleven-page hole...
...commands, such as "Open the barndoors on the broads!"* In the first-class staterooms, a collection of extras as mixed as the strays in a Conrad novel-English girls from Kobe, White Russians, Poles, wives of U.S. marines, a French judo expert-had the maritime of their lives and drew $10 a day. As the cameras rolled, Realist Stone pushed his 101 performers (including George Sanders, Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack) through the paces of disaster. A grand piano plunged into the ship's chapel through a 12-ft. hole in the deck of the grand salon; Actress...