Word: drew
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...meeting, intended as an open forum for people's views on the amendment, drew activists on only one side of the issue, as supporters of the amendment failed to appear...
Sponsored by the Nieman Foundation, the event drew more than 800 participants who attended lectures by University faculty and administration, including Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine and Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson...
...ravens. Owen realized that these enormous bones belonged to a previously unknown and long-extinct group of animals related to but different from lizards. Dinosaurs became an immediate rage in London. An 1854 exhibition at Hyde Park's Crystal Palace featured a number of life-size dinosaur models that drew throngs of admirers...
...event, the consensus once again was for something less than militant action. The Serb assault on Srebrenica forced nothing more than what had been all but agreed upon -- and pushed off -- earlier in the week. The Council did what it has done so often to such poor effect: it drew a line in the blood- soaked soil of the Balkans and defied the Serbs to step over it. They lost no time in obliging. On Saturday a vanguard of 60 Canadian blue helmets en route to Srebrenica from Tuzla and an aid convoy from Belgrade failed to cross Serb lines...
...January beating of a homosexual man by three Marines at a North Carolina bar patronized by gays drew national attention, occurring soon after President Clinton's call for the open admission of gays into the armed forces. Last week the Marines were acquitted. A judge ruled that the prosecution had not made its case, notwithstanding the admission by one defendant that he had yelled, "I don't want nothing to do with you faggots!" -- in response, the Marine insisted, to taunting by gays in the bar. According to the defense, the brutalized gay man willingly joined the brawl...