Word: drew
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...witness stand, staring down at the small color photograph in her lap, Myrlie Evers' hands quivered slightly. The wood-paneled courtroom was silent. Mrs. Evers paused, drew in a breath and then spoke, her clear voice cracking for the first time that day. "Yes," she said, "this is Medgar in his casket." The photograph showed the exhumed body of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who had been shot and killed in 1963; even in his coffin he wore a gold N.A.A.C.P. pin on his lapel. Evers had been taken from his grave, and his widow had been called to testify...
This year's particularly timely debate on themorality of homosexuality between Kenan professorof Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 and NewRepublic editor-in-chief Andrew Sullivan drew afull house to Sanders Theatre...
...despite offering tightly-focused, specialized alternatives to 13b, the Fine Arts Department has definitely felt the effect of removing its most popular class, which drew 277 people in the spring...
Roth was 28 when his first novel, Call It Sleep (1934), was published. This intense, impressionistic account of a young Jewish boy's first years among the vibrant immigrant life of Manhattan's Lower East Side drew some favorable notices. It was also panned in a few left-wing and radical journals for being too poetic and personal, selfishly autobiographical and insufficiently attentive to the class struggle then being underscored by the Great Depression...
...DREW LEWIS, Secretary of Transportation under Reagan. How he felt: "I was disappointed, but on the other hand, it was interesting to watch it on television and see all your colleagues there." What he did: Watched with an aide and ate pizza. Topping: Extra cheese, sausage, onion, pepperoni...