Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flows. From that fabled city, each day brought a new promise of reform. The government drew up a provisional constitution with an article specifically aimed at cutting up vast farmlands now owned by some 60 sheiks, who were the backbone of Nuri's regime. The rebels abolished the anachronistic tribal courts that would, for a fee, give tribesmen a far softer kind of justice than would a regular court. Dramatically, the rebels also announced that work would cease on Feisal's new $20 million "palace," which was actually to be an administration building with only comparatively moderate accommodations...
...trip-hammer blows forced John McClellan to change cherished plans to retire from the Senate and set up a law practice with John. But the blows also drew him closer to his surviving children, two daughters and a third son, James. Then young Jimmy went to the University of Arkansas law school. "I really didn't know what I wanted to be," said he, "but I wanted to be close to my father." The Senator made new plans. He established Jimmy in a practice, planned to leave Capitol Hill in 1960 and join the firm...
...military's own: Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, chief of the country's ruling junta, who is apparently trying to line up enough popular support to become a "unity" candidate for President in the Nov. 30 election. In a series of quiet meetings, top officers drew up a paper complaining about the "shameful events" of the Nixon visit, demanding that Communists and far leftists be fired from government posts. The military had not decided where or when to air its complaints. But one conservative officer, Defense Minister Jesús Maria Castro León, lost...
...should unite 70 million Arabs from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. The intellectuals' enthusiasm sparked a political awakening in which Islam played a big part. Wherever this Pan-Arab idea came to life, it ran up against the Western imperial domination of the day. The foreigner who drew his arbitrary borders across the body of the Arab lands, who exploited the riches of the Arab soil and what lay beneath it, this Western foreigner was the enemy...
...Giants 16 last-inning victories this season (six of them since July 4), and made last year's ragtag New Yorkers the darlings of San Francisco. Some 800,000 San Franciscans had crowded into tiny (capacity: 23,144) Seals Stadium to watch their heroes (more than the team drew all season in New York). At week's end they cheered frenziedly as the Giants whipped the Pittsburgh Pirates and barged boldly past the Milwaukee Braves into first place...