Word: drew
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...once, Bob Dole drew an excited response--in this case a spontaneous gasp--from a crowd. To an audience at Chaminade Prep school in West Hills, California, Dole read a quote from Bill Clinton in 1992. Asked by a young man on an MTV show if he would inhale marijuana a second time around, Clinton replied, "Sure, if I could. I tried before...
Marius--who is highly regarded among many students--has had a controversial career at Harvard. In 1992, Marius published an article in Harvard Magazine in which he compared the Israeli secret police to the Gestapo. The article drew a flurry of angry letters that accused the writer of anti-Semitism...
Goldstein, who co-wrote the book with his wife, Myrna Chandler Goldstein, drew upon his experiences as a physician and an adviser to undergraduates in writing the guide, which details the intricate process of getting ready and applying to med school...
When "The Old Life's" interest doesn't lie in local reference, it often comes from a kind of humor that is closely related to stand-up comedy. Hall, an experienced reader who turns each poem into an expert performance piece, drew big laughs with poems about Steven's swearing, and about a literary game he played in college, "The Giant Broom." But while these pieces are funny, they are not necessarily poetry; remove the line breaks and you have simply an anecdote. In other words, if T.S. Eliot's poetry was stylistically artificial and thematically impersonal, and Robert Lowell...
...sooner said than done: from the woman's wrist the doctor drew a sample, injected it into a tiny cassette and snapped it into a hand-held blood analyzer. Within two minutes, all readings came up normal. There was no sign of dehydration, anemia, insulin shock or kidney failure. "In a standard emergency room, it would have taken me 30 minutes to an hour to get those test results," Bayne says...