Word: drew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...others in a living room in the middle of suburbia and watched, like a soap opera addict, as one top Nixon aide after another came before the Senate Watergate committee to hint at the various venal sins committed by the administration still in power. Like so many others, I drew the routine conclusion that Nixon was a paranoid scum, and wondered how much longer he would cling to the Oval Office. It took them a year to flush...
...pity for this broken leader; he had fallen before we were born. The Italians at the table watched our reactions. We showed no shame for Nixon--this man was as politically remote from us as the distance between Tarquinia and Washington--but on the other hand we drew no elation from watching the president take responsibility for screwing the democratic system, but point the blame elsewhere...
...will always have within me an Oriental feeling," says Emanuel Ungaro, who drew sustained applause for his exotic breastplate dresses, consisting of gold metallic chest ornaments worn above sheer sarongs. The outfits will come with tiny electronic heaters, designed to warm the heart...
...dresses, capes and blouses. For evening, there were a strapless ball gown supported by whalebone, tiered party dresses, and taffeta capes with double Pierrot collars. The knee-length daytime outfits, including simple black wool suits and Spencer jackets worn with black stockings, narrow neckties and black velvet hair ribbons, drew sustained applause from an audience that included both Madame Claude Pompidou and Bianca Jagger. Said Bergdorf Goodman President Ira Neimark, who plans to buy ten or twelve Dior ensembles for his Paris couture promotion: "Excellent-in the tradition of Dior, but younger...
...Blumenthal's policy drew fire from Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns. Testifying before the House Banking Committee, Burns contended that the U.S. has a responsibility "to protect the integrity of our currency"-an apparent call for intervention in money markets to keep the dollar's value stable. Burns raised what most economists agree is the most serious danger of permitting the dollar to float downward: a cheapened dollar boosts the price of imports and fuels domestic inflation. Some economists also fear that a weakening of the dollar-the currency used by many nations for oil purchases-will...