Word: drew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being as unobtrusive as the flies until I drew my camera. People either got disgruntled and ignored me with their peripheral vision, or pretended not to see me, or grinned as I grimaced at the inevitable clumsiness of taking people's pictures. Two waist-high kids came over to look at the bicycle. One spoke French for both of them, and told me about his father's bike that had a "pa-pa-put" motor on it so he never had to pedal except to get started. He asked me about the name engraved on the frame of the bike...
...week we follow up with a report on women's advances in politics, business, sport and the professions (see THE SEXES). Planned by Senior Editor Ruth Brine, the story draws on research done mainly by TIME'S women staffers. Reporter-Researchers Susan Altchek Aroldi and Linda Young drew statistics on employment and advancement from census reports and government publications. Correspondents Marguerite Michaels and Mary Cronin talked with women leaders as well as with the mostly male bureaucrats of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Writer Andrea Chambers summarized their findings: women, still sharply discriminated against, are making strong gains...
...rescue mission was roundly condemned by both Peking and Hanoi as an "act of piracy." But the Soviets had no public reaction at all by week's end. Elsewhere in the world, the operation drew mixed, though generally favorable, responses. An experienced French diplomat expressed a fairly typical complaint that "the same result might have been obtained with less violent methods and without the loss of lives." Britons and West Germans, however, generally expressed approval of the rescue operation. The Times of London called it "both right and effectively executed." Said a West German diplomat: "People understand that Ford could...
...Saigon prepared to surrender, the last lecture of "Vietnam" for 1975 was ending. Woodside facing an even larger crowd than usual, drew smile with his mixing of Eastern and Western images--"A grand Confucian funeral makes a Hollywood funeral seem emotionally modest," he explained a one point. As 1:00 drew near, he skipped some points, and began speaking faster. When the bells of Memorial Church started ringing, he still has more...
...wonder at the source of Massie's sensitivity. In 1957, the Massies took their six-month-old son Bobby to a New York hospital for tests to determine why he bruised so easily and bled so long. They waited for hours while uncommunicative doctors and nurses examined and drew blood from the screaming, terrified baby. Finally, a doctor emerged and coldly offered them a dreadful diagnosis and an ambiguous afterthought. "The child has classical hemophilia," he told them. "There will be compensations, you may be sure...