Word: drew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children do express their deprivation in various ways. Once, when a counselor was playfully roughhousing with a child, the boy suddenly drew back in fear, saying, "You hit me!" Their play is less constructive than is normal for children their ages; they seem to prefer throwing rocks and sticks to building blocks or story-telling. Under constant peer pressure, their level of competition increases to the point where many children seek the heaviest stones, and boast of having the strongest muscles...
...further attempt to measure student attitudes on racial relations on campus, the Committee decided to hold more open meetings at Currier and Kirkland House, similar to the one at Quincy House which drew about 20 students last month...
...cruel hoax" to compare the plight of blacks in America today with the situation of European immigrant groups of the past, George D. Kelsey, professor emeritus of divinity at Drew University, said last night at the Science Center...
...consensus, with each member having veto power. Smith will be its first chairman, a position that will rotate every four weeks. Asked whether it was just coincidence that he happened to draw the first lot, Smith gave a nervous smile. "We agreed it would be better this way. We drew lots...
...have taken a sad pleasure in his role as the unstrung harp of the jazz age. "I talk with the authority of failure-Ernest with the authority of success," he wrote in his Notebook. His difficulties with alcohol and his desperate need to duplicate his youthful successes often drew harsh responses from his old friend Hemingway. In a letter to Maxwell Perkins, their editor at Scribner's, he blamed Scott's troubles on his "cheap Irish love of defeat" and wanted him to stop trying too hard for another masterpiece, adding that "only fairies deliberately write masterpieces...