Word: drews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stride through the backstretch he cut down Warwell Worthy's lead. On the turn into the homestretch he passed her, swinging out, and the two came into the straightaway neck & neck. A faint cloud of dust, raised by hoofs and wheels, lengthened and faded as the sulkies drew apart. At the finish, Sep Palin, driving the grey, was sitting straight and drawing in his reins. Warwell Worthy was a full five lengths behind...
...cards. Taught by whites, he had thought cheating was part of the game. To unmask the girl's white lover, who also cheated, Warrior-with-Gods planned a fearful revenge. Waiting until the stakes were high and a large crowd was playing, he watched the game impassively, suddenly drew a knife and pinned the lover's hand to the table. An extra ace was under the impaled palm...
...footing down to the markets, correspondents each time found Berlin housewives screaming imprecations at the new prices of butter, eggs, vegetables and especially fruits which were in some cases as much as six times more costly than last year. Apples, mostly runty and scaly, drew the loudest protests...
Communist Darcy drew even louder cheers by brashly revealing that, after U. S. dock workers' contracts with their employers expire Sept. 20, the U. S. Communist Party expects to foment "strikes of unprecedented magnitude." Asserting that California Communist stevedores enjoy cordial relations with the Communist stevedores of The Netherlands and Australia. Mr. Darcy wisely observed: "The international contacts of the working class acquire special significance in connection with the danger of an imperialist war. It is essential to win great influence among the sailors and port workers engaged in loading and transporting military supplies." In their speeches Reds Browder...
...Weibel swiftly drew a vertical slash down the taut, iodine-painted belly. The flesh parted. The melon like womb protruded. Dr. Preissecker's camera whirred steadily. Dr. Weibel slashed open the womb, ran his hand under the child, lifted it out of its mother. The camera whirred, clicked, fluttered, stopped. Dr. Weibel looked at Dr. Preissecker. Dr. Preissecker fumbled with the camera. The film had broken. Dr. Preissecker tried to fix it, grew confused...