Word: drew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...screen students for weapons, the police have been removed from the halls, and Southie students are at peace. Said one kid: "After a while, you get to know them. You just get along." In Chicago, one of the nation's most stubbornly segregated cities, a new busing program drew angry words this fall but no violent resistance. Once citizens took to the streets to denounce court rulings. Now a Miami Dolphins fan took to the sky to protest the injudiciousness of a National Football League referee whose early whistle on a fumble cost the local heroes a playoff spot...
Still, even during their best years, the A's never drew well in Oakland. Last season, with most of the stars gone and the team demoralized, Oakland had a total attendance of only 495,578 (v. 2,955,087 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, top draw in the majors) and finished last in the A.L. West. That was too much for Finley to bear, and as he exited last week, he took a parting shot at Kuhn: "My having to get out of baseball dates from 18 months ago, when his highness, Bowie Kuhn, canceled my three-player deal...
...gastronomy has created a glamorous superstar, the traveling chef, whose valises stuffed with native essences, truffles and pates are the despair of customs officers the world over. On a recent visit to Houston, Jacques Pépin drew a sellout crowd of cooking buffs from as far away as El Dorado, Ark., and Fort Walton Beach, Fla.?at $75 a head for an advanced cooking class. Alain Chapel, whose three-star restaurant at Mionnay is one of France's finest, was the visiting chef at Manhattan's elegant Four Seasons restaurant for three weeks early this year, preparing meals...
...make it, according to its owners, the No. 1 tourist destination in the world. More than 13 million visitors came in 1976, and attendance in this year's fourth quarter is up 7.4% over a year ago. Moreover, the Disney complex, which grossed almost $255 million last year, drew other hoteliers and so has driven the price of land from $200 an acre in 1971 to as much as $100,000 today. With almost 40,000 first-class rooms, Orlando's hotels are attracting some conventions, notably the 1978 congress of the International Chamber of Commerce. Walt Disney...
...same ideas about activism followed me into college. I drew clear distinctions between those who believed in certain principles and those who marched to prove their beliefs. The latter were louder, more agitated, and perhaps braver-and I certainly wasn't one of them. I went through freshman year without taking a political stand on anything. After all, I wasn't yet able to vote, and I had enough problems with everything else to keep me busy...