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Word: drew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days before the latest Middle East maneuvers, Carter was talking in private about calling another Camp David summit meeting with Israel's Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat. There was a compulsion in his mannerism as if something drew him to the mountain, so much so that he hardly considered that the two men would turn him down. His next move was to enlarge his personal commitment, to get on the phone to Sadat, to invite Begin to the White House for a personal and intimate conference. Carter conferred, joined Begin in a Sabbath dinner, asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: A Touch of the Healing Grace | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

During an intermission a white girl drew comment from blacks belonging to a youth gang called the Blue Coats. Their white counterparts, the Family, came to her rescue. In the shooting that followed, one of the Family, Marvin Kenneth Eller, 19, was killed by a .22-cal. bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Flick of Violence | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Then, as now, Radcliffe regularly drew top-flight applicants. But when Horner took office in 1972, admissions policy was one important bone of contention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fair Radcliffe at One Hundred | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Nothing could be more indicative of the childish apathy of college students in the 1970s than the dumb sixth-grade graffiti which has recently appeared in South House and is now spreading all over the university. In the South House elevator some childish person recently drew a Valentine heart with an arrow through it containing the names "Bert and Margie." (I have, of course, changed the names.) A few days later, regressing to kindergarten, someone had written "Bert and Margie sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g." Yesterday I discovered "Bert loves Margie" written in every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Writing on Walls | 3/17/1979 | See Source »

...Wedekind, fared less well, and therein lay the perplexity. The production was staged by French Director Patrice Chéreau, 34, who has built a controversial career on the apparent principle that anything worth doing is worth doing outrageously. His avant-garde Ring cycle for the 1976 Bayreuth Festival drew boos and hisses as well as cheers, and is still hotly debated inter nationally by Wagnerians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lulu Is the Toast of Paris | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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