Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schools, the crowds grew wilder. A white waitress raised a tattooed arm, threw a rock and hit a Negro woman on the chest. A Negro woman guided her grandchild quietly through a gauntlet of hissing whites until she broke under the strain, undid one button of her blouse and drew a knife. "If any of you jump me, I'm going to use this," she cried. All pretense at education collapsed as the Battle of Nashville got under...
...harassment of Negro children, they found themselves facing hard-eyed policemen and barricades, backed by a city of conscience aroused as rarely before. At one point a Negro minister escorting a little girl from school was bombarded with stones; he turned upon the white crowd and drew a pistol. The police arrested him, but he was quickly freed on bond. After the minister made a public statement regretting his resort to force, one of the arresting officers spoke with a kind of tolerance that was different from the previous day's. "These people," he said, "have been pushed pretty...
...clay pipe, broken bits of pottery and an olive branch. But he never uttered a sound. "I do not talk," Picasso had told NBC. "I only paint." In a fascinating finale, Pablo, bare-chested and wearing soiled black shorts, clambered up a ladder and with no preliminary sketches drew dancing goddesses across the wall of a chapel with an ease and grace that made genius look simple. The stunning close-ups of his works (pink eyes, blue breasts) provided color-conscious NBC with its best argument for color...
...weak backhand, only to watch it grow stronger. She tried to step up the speed of her own serves, only to make deadly double faults. Taking her time, getting more depth on her shots as her opposition faded, Althea had things all her own way. She hardly drew a hurried breath as she won, 6-3, 6-2. The first Negro to cross the tennis color line was the first lady of tennis...
Break Away. But relief was not in sight. The smaller local stations felt the show's humor too delicate and subtly modulated for listener tastes (though K.F.&O. once had a Sullivan-sized rating of 72% of the TV audience, drew 8,000 letters a week, went out over 57 stations). "There's no right place in TV for us any more." said 39-year-old Puppeteer Tillstrom. "People in TV would rather make money than provide entertainment." He was relieved to leave "the world of ulcers and tranquilizers. If a man has anything in his heart...