Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...younger DeKoning was also charged with extortion (extracting kickbacks from builders), but he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of coercion, drew a one-year suspended sentence...
Cambridge's itinerant prowler drew the attention of the city fathers at Monday's City Council session, as one councilor claimed that the man's identity was known to police. Several measures to increase police protection were passed at the meeting...
Lights Out. First the Indians hooted a few jeers. The Klan ignored them. Then slowly the Lumbees fanned out and moved across the road. A tall Indian youth walked closer, raised his rifle, calmly drew a bead on the light bulb, and baml-out it went. Suddenly the band galloped toward the huddled Klansmen, yelling old war cries, firing into the dark night and at auto tires. Most of the Klansmen dropped their guns and made for their cars in fright. The Indians kept coming (one proudly wore a traditional feathered headdress marked SOUVENIR OF CHIMNEY ROCK, N.C.), burst upon...
...came in person to bargain with her. He promised to repay all the money and drew up the draft of a document creating her Comtesse de Beauregard-she had bought the huge chateau and park near Paris bearing that name. "The duel over," says Author Maurois, "there was a reconciliation upon the field...
...Chicago Art Institute and moving in March to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. To stage the show, the Chicago Institute, which owns Seurat's key masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (now valued at more than $1,000,000), drew on 86 collections in the U.S. and abroad, brought together a total of 150 sketches and paintings. Of the seven major works that Seurat painted in his brief lifetime, four (from London, France, The Netherlands and Chicago) are present at the show. One indication of their value: both the director...