Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the same enthusiasm that they had once devoted to demonstrating against the British, Burma's new bosses set about achieving U Nu's dream. They adopted a $1.6 billion economic development scheme, drew up ambitious plans for a steel mill, textile industry, housing developments and hundreds of other state-operated projects. But somehow, through inexperience and the complicated task of coping simultaneously with half a dozen rebellions, they failed to achieve most of their targets. Early this year, after almost a decade of independence, Burma's gross national product was still less than 90% of what...
...foreign courts have dealt so gently with G.I.s that the U.S. has rarely felt the need to intervene. Of 4,437 American servicemen, dependents and civilian auxiliaries brought to trial in foreign courts in a one-year period, 275 were acquitted, 3,876 got minor fines and reprimands, 178 drew sentences of imprisonment, which the foreign courts forthwith suspended. In all, 108 Americans were imprisoned-a year's total which, considering that it applies to 700,000 men, amounts to a remarkably low crime rate and one of the highest leniency rates in the world. Foreign court sentences...
Rising for an angry answer, Ohio's Wayne L. Hays drew applause by declaring that "there is no person in the United States . . . who is doing more to divide Negro citizens from other citizens than the gentleman from New York." Powell's letter, added Hays, almost persuaded him to support the jury-trial amendment. Dangling a foot over the side of his chair, Howard Smith smiled contentedly...
...warmed-over Virgal shot through with a Shakespearean flavor (Berlioz described parts of it as "stolen from Shakespeare and Virgilianized"). To give the sprawling work a proper production and still hold it to a manageable 4½ hours (with only minor cuts), Covent Garden prepared lavish sets and drew on all its artistic and mechanical resources. Sir John Gielgud got his first crack at opera direction. Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom (with all six feet of her hair unwound) was cast in the ear-rending role of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Conductor Rafael Kubelik presided over a 150-man orchestra...
...center of attention for the sons and daughters of '32 who were on exhibition for most of the afternoon, in and around the pool. A few members of the varsity swimming team were on hand to do any lifesaving that needed to be done, and diver Frank Gorman drew much applause from the assembled multitudes for several of his maneuvers off the low board...