Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welfare-housekeeping sector that cuts might have been looked for to balance increases in defense spending. In his Oklahoma City speech in mid-November, the President said that "savings of the kind we need can come about only through cutting out or deferring entire categories of activities." That warning drew from Democrat Adlai Stevenson, and the liberal camp, pained protests against dismantling the welfare state. But Ike's 1959 budget should soothe such fears: the welfare state comes through remarkably beefy...
This sally drew a reply from brother John, who is a partner in the Foot family solicitors' firm in Plymouth. Tartly, John accused Sir Hugh of advertising "his intellectual accomplishments-such as they are." Sir Hugh's letter, John went on, disclosed "a monumental arrogance which leads him to assume that we, his brothers, have nothing better to do than discuss him and his affairs with newspapermen...
...bomber of the Indian air force. Streaking into Bombay in eleven minutes, Menon next appeared-natty in a white suit and swinging a cane-aboard the cruiser Mysore, the new flagship of the Indian navy. But it was as a politician of the folksy, Estes Kefauver model that Menon drew the largest crowds. At New Delhi and Madras he packed meeting halls to the rafters, and dhoti-clad crowds filled the streets outside waiting to hear him. To a youth rally of 25,000, Menon cried defiance of Pakistan over the invasion of Kashmir, and drew roars of approval...
...Hollywood, during a brief slip into the meandering footprints of his late convivial father, Actor John Barrymore Jr., 25, was nabbed for being drunk and disturbing the peace at 1 a.m. while tiffing with wife Cara in his parked car. He drew a $100 fine and a 90-day jail stretch that was suspended provided he spends his next three weekends in jail. Said Junior later: "I tried some rum concoctions and they tasted like punch. They didn't act that way. I'm through with liquor...
...outside scoring. At one point, Harrington tallied on three quick lay-ups off of the Crimson offensive pattern, which is designed to set loose a cutter through the use of both a high and a low post. The pattern became all the more successful as the Lions drew in more closely, making themselves easy targets for well-planned blocks...