Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made the plan to tunnel. The brawny anarchist did the digging. But they realized that the man to go first through the tunnel would be shot at by the guard. They all turned to the big, brave anarchist, but he was afraid to go. Suddenly, poor little Pinya drew himself up and said: 'Comrades, you elected me by democratic process as your leader, therefore I will go first...
...home, Khrushchev nominated himself as spokesman of the New Class in the Soviet Union. He was careful to disassociate himself from Stalin's terror, and the New Class was grateful. Khrushchev himself told British Laborite Aneurin Bevan the story of how it had been before. Presidium members, said Khrushchev, drew up a plan to decentralize the economy after World War II, and Voznesensky, the chief economic planner, took it to Stalin. "Voznesensky came back," said Khrushchev, "and told them Stalin had denounced him as a traitor to socialism. This made them angry because Voznesensky had merely done what they...
...recent rate of 300,000 bbl. a day to 220,000. The import curb was no surprise, since Washington last July forced oil companies east of the Rockies "voluntarily" to reduce crude oil imports to protect the market for politically powerful U.S. independent oil producers. Nevertheless, the latest pronouncement drew sharp and angry protests from such companies as the Richfield Oil Corp., which was ordered to import no more than 9,100 bbl. daily v. a recent rate of 22,000. Said a Richfield vice president: "This is ridiculous. We have no information from Washington how this allocation was arrived...
...with squealing children and shushing mothers. How to get through? The wide eyes narrowed, the pointed chin shot forward, and daddy's darling charged. "Hey!" a five-year-old hollered as he pulled her elbow out of his ear. "Who do you think you are?" The little girl drew herself up. "I," she announced in a powerful voice, "am the leading lady!" The crowd fell back, an aisle was made, and down it the six-year-old diva swept grandly to her dressing room...
...most bizarre situations are found. One college, when the time limit for acceptances drew near, found that the percentage of acceptances was alarmingly low. A number of offers were at once sent to applicants who had been put on a waiting list. Then, quite unexpectedly, a wave of acceptances from candidates formerly offered admissions was followed by another wave of acceptances from the new group just offered admission, and there was a freshman class larger by almost 100 than had been planned...