Word: drew
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PORT ARTHUR, Australia: Australians are trying to come to terms with the enormous shock of Sunday's massacre that left at least 34 dead. Memorial services in Hobart drew hundreds of mourners, and the Prime Minister says the nation has been "shaken to the core." Martin Bryant, the man accused of opening fire on the group of tourists in Tasmania, is sedated and being treated for burns in the same hospital where several of the people he wounded are recovering. The staff there is on edge after anonymous callers threatened the nurses and doctors who are treating him. "There...
DIED. MICHELLE CAREW, 18, daughter of baseball great Rod Carew; of leukemia; in Orange County, California. The search for bone-marrow donors turned her father into an advocate for transplant candidates, and her plight drew national attention to minority and biracial patients...
...plays started in the bottom of the first. Down two, freshman Hal Carey slapped a single into left to lead off the inning. Sophomore centerfielder Brian Ralph drew a walk and junior third baseman Mike Hochanadel pushed both runners up with a perfect sacrifice bunt down the first base line...
...removed), I cheered. When wolf packs were reintroduced into Yellowstone, I felt a wild thrill. And though the tourist board will tell you otherwise, there are indeed a lot of weirdos here: outcasts and outsiders of every stripe, a lot of them refugees from milder climes where their eccentricities drew stares (Ted Turner and Jane Fonda have a ranch nearby, not to mention the gun freaks, vegans and channelers). Out here, though, these folks are left alone. I like that. Whatever Kaczynski's crimes, if any, the fact he could live so long in his dank hut unmolested and undisturbed...
...Park. The roads were clogged with supply-filled U-Haul vans. In Livingston, the town where I now live, the store shelves had been cleared of staples from tampons to dried beans to rifle shells. The locals were scared, and there was talk of violence. As the appointed day drew near, I heard dark rumors of tanks along the highway and camouflaged snipers hiding in a rancher's fields...