Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view, and even on holidays you can't stay away from routine obsessions. The meteorologist will keep searching the sky, and the geologist the earth. And it is the same for the physician." So Ungerer, who takes in vacation vistas with an artist's eye for perspective, drew some impressions (see cuts) of physicians who cannot quite get away from it all, even when they try to relax at summer avocations...
...partly paralyzed, barely articulate clerk in Jerusalem's Institute for the Blind, and the orphan son of a Bible scholar; a childhood accident had left Hacham with a dragging leg, a shriveled arm and a sagging mouth. All Israel was rooting for Amos as contest time drew near. Every seat in Jerusalem's Hebrew University amphitheatre (capacity: 2,340) was sold well in advance, 300 policemen handled the crowds, and all over the country radio sets were tuned in. With a blare of trumpets, a swell of voices from the choir, and a chanting of prayers, the contest...
...first three shows drew 600 letters. Station Manager William Davidson announced that he would run the show indefinitely, backed up his words by okaying Producer Farrar's request for money to buy a coffee...
Space & Time. In Justine, Narrator Darley drew what he thought were final conclusions from his own experience: he supplied answers as he saw them to Justine's nymphomania, Nessim's seeming complaisance and incipient madness, Melissa's tortured love. In Balthazar, an all-seeing, cabalistic doctor gives a rude shake to this picture and, as in a kaleidoscope, all the parts fall into radically changed patterns. Darley learns that Justine only pretended to love him, that he was used as a decoy to conceal her passion...
...heavyweight prizefighter managed by Hoffa's pal Owen Brennan drew $75 a week for two years as a Teamster welfare-fund claims investigator but did no investigating at all, instead he did odd jobs on Brennan's horse farm. The prizefighter's straightforward testimony about his Teamster days (now ended) flatly contradicted what Hoffa told the committee a year ago, and Chairman McClellan said he would ask the Justice Department to investigate the conflict...