Word: drew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most suggested that empowerment and awareness are the best ways to thwart violence against women. A few expressed their anger at the current situation facing women. One speaker drew scattered applause when he said that violence was not just a women's problem, but a problem for all people...
...Germans living in Czechoslovakia before World War II,Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrevhas caused an uproar in the former Soviet Union. In remarks Tuesday at a defense and foreign policy council meeting, Kozyrev said that Russia will use its armed might to defend Russian nationals abroad. The statement immediately drew the ire of many in Ukraine, the Baltic states and other former Soviet republics with large populations of ethnic Russians. The states were quick to interpret the remarks as an indication ofRussian imperialist aspirations, but Kozyrev on Thursday professed bewilderment at the fuss, saying "What are the army and navy...
...plots of all three movies into a blitzkrieg show lasting just over one hour. "It was delightful," says Bezreh. With novelties like a Planet Alderon that exploded into an audience-showering rain of candy and complementary freeze-pops during the Hans Solo-frozen-in-carbon scene, the show drew an enthusiastic crowd...
...they said, that by coming forward they would damage their career prospects and be stigmatized as troublemakers. (One remarked, "The good-ole-boy world is still the good-ole-boy world.") And though they work in separate parts of the operation and do not know each other, they both drew a picture of Bolduc as an executive lech, fond of sticking his tongue in the ears of startled women or slipping a hand up their dresses-all in the name of unbuckled...
...there anything Jane Smiley cannot do? In between writing penetrating tales of domestic heartbreak (in novellas such as The Age of Grief), she tossed off a 582-page novel that drew upon her knowledge of Old Icelandic (The Greenlanders). Now, having won the Pulitzer Prize and a permanent place in America's gallery of tragedians with A Thousand Acres, a punishingly dark look at sexual abuse that brought King Lear into the American heartland, she comes up with a 414-page campus satire that culminates in the encounter of a 700-lb. runaway hog and a former Pork Queen...