Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wealthy truck-trailer manufacturer, who was offered a $1,500,0001oan from Teamster funds by Beck when a proxy battle threatened his company. Fruehauf showed appreciation by arranging a complicated $200,000 personal loan for Beck when the Teamster boss was being investigated by Internal Revenue agents. But Fruehauf drew the line at making a company loan because "I didn't think it was good business...
...color of earth, and had a texture not unlike a truffle, apart from one raw reddish gash in it. It gave off an odor as of clay newly dug; also a pungent whiff of onion and of oil of geranium...They stood frozen before this object that drew and yet repelled them, as if a uniform reptillian mass should suddenly uncoil before their eyes and rear a dozen snaky heads. It was death's absolute presence that confronted them...
Foreign Minister Christian Pineau of France touched off the latest round of Suez talk with a call on the 11-nation Security Council to arrange new negotiations with Egypt for a permanent settlement. He drew quick backing from Sir Pierson Dixon of Britain, and Ronald Walker of Australia...
...thirty-two straight Plays presented, sixteen were major productions, fourteen were Theatre Work-shop productions (exactly half of which were given over to original student scripts), and two were concert readings under the aegis of the Workshop. The plays drew from many categories: ancient Greek, medieval morality, Shakespearean and other Elizabethan drama, eighteenth-century comedy, nineteenth-century Russian and modern European and American drama. The other thirteen items were musical, comprising eighteenth-and nineteenth-century comedy and modern American comedy and tragedy...
...singles competition, the Crimson players ran into bad luck, as all except Junta were eliminated by the quarterfinal round. Gottlieb, seeded sixth, drew a first round bye, defeated Yale's Sam Schoonmaker in the second round, but ran into trouble in the third, losing to Don Hicks, whom he had beaten 6-0, 6-0 in the Harvard-Amherst match...