Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rampaging Wildcats added three more victims to their list last week to run their unblemished streak to 11. As a result, they drew more first place votes than ever before, 81, and boasted their biggest point lead of the season, 1,245 to 1,115 for North Carolina State, which jumped from fifth place into the runner-up spot...
Trucks filled with police and plainclothesmen suddenly roared into the street, drew up at the Assembly entrance. Moving at the double, the police burst through the flimsy barricades and charged the Assemblymen. A tangle of fighting, cursing men rolled on the floor or tumbled over desks, chairs and other writhing bodies. Park Soon Chun went down from a blow to the jaw. One by one, bleeding and still struggling, the sit-down strikers were hauled from the chamber and down the corridors, past jeering, pro-government Assemblymen of the Liberal Party. Eight had to be sent to the hospital...
...gang of land clearers captured a naked young Xetá girl. While they were still debating what to do with their prize, they found themselves surrounded by weird-looking Indian men with tusks sticking out of their lower lips. The Indians spoke no words. They drew back the arrows on their bows; the girl ran to join them; and they all melted silently into the jungle...
When the glacier finally drew back toward Canada (about 23,000 B.C.), the unburdened crust began to recover, and the dimple flattened out. Ohio, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin rose out of the Leverett Sea. The broad estuary that led to the Gulf shrank to form the modern Mississippi...
...recent match with Dillon's men, the Colorado Gunslingers Association's President Earl Vaughn, a Colorado Springs air-conditioning engineer, managed to shoot his right calf full of paraffin. Says Dillon, who has been guilty of the same sin himself: "The oldtimers must have cocked as they drew, too. 'Course, I never heard of any of them shooting themselves in the calf...