Word: drew
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...stocky, cigar-waving New Yorker who wages his campaigns like a war. He barks over the phone, at reporters and candidates alike, so gruffly that he has been nicknamed Garth Vader. He once did graduate studies in psychology, then produced televised sports shows until his passion for politics drew him into John Lindsay's successful 1965 campaign for mayor of New York. He claims since then to have "won" 68 of 83 races, mostly for liberal Democrats. "All but twelve," he adds with characteristic immodesty, "were underdogs." This year, Garth says, he was approached to handle major races...
Savoring the suspense, Felici drew out the announcement and the syllables of the name. "Ca-ro-lum ..." Some priests gasped. They thought he meant Carlo Confalonieri, 85-year-old dean of the College of Cardinals. "They've gone crazy!" cried one of the priests...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The award of the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin yesterday drew mixed reactions from local experts as well as observers of the Middle East throughout the world...
Jenny Stone drew first blood for the Crimson at 3:30 of the first half. The junior inner emerged from a scramble in front of the net to beat Bruin goalie Sally Cohen on a push-in. Sophomore Ann Velie imitated Stone's tally with a dink shot of her own at 7:15, to make...
Though one was mainly a novelist and storyteller and the other a born play wright, Turgenev is sometimes regarded as a precursor of Chekhov. But even the similarities between the two great Russians are deceptive. Chekhov drew a bitingly comic profile of the follies that his provincial characters are prey to; yet he shared their pain. Turgenev fired off comic volleys that riddle his provincial characters' vanity and pretension; but when his people bleed, he casts a cold and worldly eye upon the scene. In Chekhov, longing is the arrow of love, usually un requited; in Turgenev, idle fantasy...