Word: drew
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...statement, while not a considerable softening of Powell's previous position, drew loud applause and appeared designed to satisfy some of those who had opposed his appearance...
...president and other administrators had appeared visibly nervous before Powell's speech. University Marshall Richard M. Hunt, while introducing Powell in the morning ceremony to award honorary degrees, drew scattered chuckles when he misspoke of "tectonic shifts in global Powell--power--alignments...
...Riordan has never met Ross Perot. His New York-edged voice sounds nothing like a Texas drawl. And where he resides, among the mansions of Brentwood, they think "clean out the barn" must be a line from a Beverly Hillbillies rerun. Still, when a deft Los Angeles Times cartoonist drew him with jug ears and labeled him "H. Ross Riordan," the subject of the caricature recalls with a smile, he was not only amused but flattered: "I felt I'd arrived...
Lani Guinier: The views that drew fire...
...Administration sent two separate emissaries (Solicitor General Drew Days and legislative liaison Howard Paster) to suggest that she withdraw voluntarily, but she refused. Sensing she would never get her hearing before the Senate, she launched a media blitz that left the Clinton team stunned and ( angry with her for failing to be a team player. "Lani was not going to pull herself out," says an Administration official, adding pointedly, "It's the M.O. of the civil-rights movement that they are not satisfied until they can go out, declare defeat and say, 'We got screwed.' That's what they wanted...