Word: drews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...club met in Leverett House that night and chalked a magic circle on the floor. They drew cabalistic signs on the walls and in the air, following an ancient recipe. Everyone stood on the circle, for it wasn't safe to be outside. Accord- ing to the script, all this should make the devil appear, usually in the form of a goat or a butterfly...
...constancy, there was one notable acknowledgment: at Cairo in 1943, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill promised the Generalissimo to crush Japan and restore all Chinese territory lost in half a century of struggle with the Japanese. Formally, China became one of the "Big Five." When the war ended, China drew a long breath and turned to reconstruction. The spearhead of Chiang's planned reconstruction of China was Manchuria, with its coal and iron and factories. At the last moment, it was snatched from China's hand...
...cycled 12½ miles in 57 minutes, ran 215 yards in 43 seconds, walked five miles in 74 minutes. Then she heaved a javelin 59 feet. She got her medal. She also drew a frown from her children who didn't approve of such behavior in a woman of 72. "It's not grandmotherly," they said...
...colonel develops a nasty habit of passing the death sentence on everybody who frustrates or annoys him. Sooner or later, most of his ex-Army pals get on his nerves. Eventually he gets so careless about who is hanged that his wife (Ellen Drew) and his best friend (William Hoiden) run out on him. A lot of the town-folk still regard him as a hero, but at this point the movie becomes an unusual western by seeming to ask: "Is there a psychiatrist in the house...
Crimson superiority from the foul line won Bill Barclay's varsity basketball squad its season's opener against Brown, 52 to 50, at Providence Saturday night. The game, a sloppy contest all the way through, drew a capacity crowd...