Word: drew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe cross country team sipped the sweet nectar of victory in the women's race of the Greater Boston Championship at Franklin Park yesterday. Meanwhile, the varsity men of Harvard tasted lesser brew with a second-place finish in the meet, which drew seven area colleges...
When Heinz drew the issue as one of integrity he took a risk; he was one of the politicians who received illegal campaign contributions from Gulf Oil. Though the amount was a piddling $6,000 and Heinz returned the money-insisting that he had originally been unaware of the source-the incident remains very much alive. Green, with his gift for mockery, corrupts one of Lady Macbeth's lines; he quotes it as "Will not all the oil of Arabia wash this blood from my hands?" (while the real language is "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten...
...been hurt by his acknowledged acceptance of unreported campaign funds from the Nixon Administration in 1970. Sarbanes, who attended Princeton on scholarship, later Oxford University and Harvard Law School, comes from a Greek working-class background-he used to wash dishes in his family's restaurant. He drew national attention when he drafted the so-called "Sarbanes substitute," which became the first article of Impeachment passed by the House Judiciary Committee in 1974. A liberal, Sarbanes nonetheless has opposed busing and unconditional amnesty for draft evaders. With the Democrats' 3-to-l registration margin in Maryland and Sarbanes...
...What drew them to Phoenix was the death of Don Bolles, 47, the Arizona Republic investigative reporter killed four months ago when a bomb blew up his car. Bolles had for years been digging into local political corruption and organized crime. On June 2 he was finally lured to his death by a telephone tipster who claimed to be offering information on a land-sales fraud. Now Bolles' colleagues of the IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors Association) will try to pick up where he left off. "We're not here to catch Don Bolles' killer," says Michael...
...remarquable," "fantastique," and "extraordinaire" are being breathed by growers and wine masters, traditionally a cautious clan. "We have rarely seen such quality in the grape," attests Jean Delmas, estate manager of Cháteau Haut-Brion, the fabled premier grand cru classe Bordeaux cháteau. As the picking drew to a close last week, some growers sounded like Verlaine of the vineyard. Said Aubert Gaudin de Villaine, co-owner of Burgundy's great Romanée-Conti vineyard: "These grapes could have been made in a sculptor's studio-small, round, even and tightly bunched, close around...