Word: drew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Baha'i Association and Interfaith Forum drew three entering first-years this year, a significant jump in its membership, according to Susana R. Castillo...
Offset with the hyperreality of the homeless characters in the audience (several audience members drew close their valuables or else took out change to give the actors, assuming they were authentic), the sum effect is one of deranged imbalance. This is especially true when a jazz band takes the stage and the homeless pair perform a choreographed dance and pretend to be playing along on tubes shaped like saxophones and guitars. The scene is perplexing, pointless, and childishly extreme...
...addition to the letters, sources said the administration began disciplining students who brought drunk friends to University Health Services (UHS). That policy drew heavy fire from students and UHS officials alike...
...charge of the Mather House HAND Algebra Afterschool Tutoring Program. As a volunteer, I saw both how they devoted themselves to these inner-city students as well as how these students looked to them and came to trust them in return. They also organized, and Chinua founded, the Charles Drew Society of Black Future Physicians and Life Scientists. And the list of accomplishments and activities goes...
...whole never consistently catches fire. It is fascinating to watch a writer of Updike's dexterity cram and mold all this diverse material into a single book. He renders, as tellingly as ever, the magic of individual moments. A movie begins in a small theater: "The heavy purple curtains drew back and the orange side lamps dimmed and in the air above their heads, with a racheted whir, a shuddering shaft of light surprised a few winged bugs, suddenly turned into darting, looping stars." But to fill up the long stretches between inspirations, Updike relies on recitations of headlines...