Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conspicuous smile curling on lips that more often turn soberly downward. New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson was obviously happy with his thoughts. Spotting Anderson alone in the corridor, a newsman hurried up, asked a question heard constantly throughout Washington: "Will he make it?" Anderson paused, drew from his inside coat pocket a well-worn tally sheet, heavily marked with circles and underlines in blue ink. The smile tugged harder at the corners of his mouth. "I'm not worried any more," said Clinton Anderson. "There will be enough votes...
...security clearance made Lewis Strauss many an unforgiving enemy among the nation's scientists. Conservative Strauss angered champions of public power by insisting on confining AEC's nuclear-power role to research and design, leaving the job of building reactors for commercial power to private enterprise. He drew much of the blame for AEC's heavily attacked (and long since canceled) Dixon-Yates contract, under which a private utility firm was supposed to build a power plant at West Memphis, Ark., right in the jealously guarded public-power domain of the Tennessee Valley Authority. He outraged stop...
While the hearings were going on, Strauss-hating Columnist Drew Pearson wrote that Strauss had obtained top-secret information from the AEC security file of a hostile witness, Physicist David Inglis. Questioned about the point, Strauss said flatly: "I have never asked for anything on Mr. Inglis in my life." Then the committee put on record a letter from the AEC showing that Strauss had asked for information on Inglis. Strauss argued that by "anything" he meant any secret information, not the few nonconfidential facts he got from AEC; But Strauss stirred up trouble for himself by telling the committee...
...baccalaureate services that year, Lowell drew a distinction between the growth of knowledge and the growth of wisdom, urging the seniors to develop conscious patterns for their lives. The freshman year of the Class of '34 had drawn to a close...
...Class of 1934 weathered the depression during college; faced the Second World War shortly afterward; came home to mold their lives during the cold war; and finally, survived the ravages of the Program for Harvard College. But their most crucial battle of all, one whose experience undoubtedly drew them nearer to one another and enabled them to face these later crises, was the fight for beer in the dining halls, a campaign which exercised the College throughout their last two yeasr. Polls were taken to whether a glass of 3.2 beer would "put you under the table" at dinner time...