Word: drew
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...that they are serious about removing the gun from the political arena in Northern Ireland." Adams, who just 13 months ago was barred from entering the United States, spent the day paying courtesy calls on members of Congress, then hosted a $200-a-plate lunch in New York that drew celebrities and politicos including Bianca Jagger, Tom Hayden and former Mayor David Dinkins. Expected haul...
Brown and co-organizer Patricia Smith brought the slam to Central Square, from its birthplace in Chicago, in May 1991. "The crowds are sedate here, as befits new England, but the quality of the poetry is better," says Brown. In the first two or three months, the slam only drew 25 or 30 people a night. Now, the audience of about 60 each Wednesday night is really supportive; after reciting, the poets get quiet feedback from all corners as they make their way around the room...
...among a bevy of cultural offerings timed to coincide with Junior Parents Weekend, the event drew sell-out crowds of 330 on both Friday and Saturday nights...
With two seconds left on the clock, Cornell forward Sarah Russell drew a foul from junior Liz Gettelman and stepped to the foul line with opportunity to put Harvard away...
...grown son, so piteously revealed by their correspondence, inevitably revolved around the twin subjects of career and money. Leopold, in Solomon's view, never reconciled himself to Mozart's maturity and in a thousand ways endeavored to infantilize and emasculate him. "Always pursuing his quota of freedom, Mozart constantly drew back and returned to conditions of bondage," Solomon writes. Mozart's lifelong fear of his father determined his behavior. When on July 3, 1778, his mother died in Paris, where Leopold, despite her protestations of poor health, had sent her to accompany Mozart as he sought a high-paying position...