Word: drew
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Catholic, patrician and Ivy League, Buckley was not entirely like the movement he summoned into shape. The New Rightists drew their strength from the fast-growing Sunbelt states of the South and the West. Their hero was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. Richard Nixon did not excite them. Forget for a moment his impeccable credentials as a cold warrior. He had spent eight years as Vice President to the pliant Dwight Eisenhower, a man the Old Right had never entirely forgiven for winning the 1952 G.O.P. nomination away from their longtime hero, Ohio Senator Robert Taft...
...Using dozens of interviews and piles of documents--with a fair amount of overlap--the authors seize the opportunity to repeat some familiar Kennedy dirt and dig up a few new tidbits of their own. What intimate psychological revelations there are rarely rise above this level: "What drew them together?" Andersen asks. A friend of Kennedy's answers, "They were two lonely people, and they instantly recognized that in each other...
...pocket-size. He also devised what remains the easiest-to-use method of bird identification. "I grouped birds that look alike and therefore might be mistaken for each other, instead of grouping them by species," he remembered years later. "I made my paintings schematic and two-dimensional, and I drew little arrows to point out the 'field marks' that are the main information you need to identify a bird. Those arrows were my invention...
...longtime loyalty to Cambridge Republicans drew the attention of Republican National Committee Chair Haley Barbour, who personally invited him to attend his first convention...
...space agency. At NASA's press conference announcing the stunning finding, agency administrator Daniel Goldin introduced his panel of experts with an unsubtle push for new funding, thanking the President and Congress for their "unwavering" support and describing the agency's projects in glowing terms. As the conference drew to a close, Goldin proposed that the President and Congress appropriate more funds to resolve the scientific issues. The announcement and conference may have been the marriage of an intriguing scientific conundrum and a budget crunch. "Obviously NASA is a beleaguered agency," says TIME's Jeffrey Kluger. "In the ten years...