Word: drew
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Much of the book centers on the intrigue between the CIA and the FBI over Nosenko's credibility. Disinclined to believe him, the CIA drew up 44 questions that it wanted the FBI, which was debriefing Nosenko, to ask him. The FBI'S J. Edgar Hoover refused to permit such questioning. The reason, according to Epstein, was that Hoover took pride in the information he was getting from another alleged KGB defector, called Fedora. Fedora had verified some portions of Nosenko's story-and if Nosenko had been shown to be a false defector, that would have...
...cocktail party, an Ethiopian official smilingly told the reporters that "we may be forced to take a revolutionary step against those deviating from the program." Since "revolutionary step" is the government euphemism for an execution, the bad joke drew some ragged laughter-but not from those who had heard the staccato of automatic-rifle fire near the hotel before the party began...
...reform proposals that were the basis of the report released this week drew sharp criticism last year, although they were much less restrictive than the reforms set forth in the new core report; now a new wave of criticism is apparently in the offing...
...Fine drew his fourth foul immediately at the open of the second half and was gone at the 11-minute mark; Banks was gone with five minutes to go. Despite strong second-half efforts by Hooft and Booker and Allen's last-second heroics, without Banks and Fine Harvard could neither stop Davis, who scored 14 in the second half, nor score frequently enough to stay ahead...
Fine flitted through the Quakers in the final seconds and drew three fouls. He sank six straight points from the line to give the cagers their final margin of victory in this, their finest hour...