Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though it drew 55 yeas to 38 nays, the measure fell seven votes short of the necessary two-thirds-the same margin by which it was defeated last year. Even if it had passed both houses of Congress, the amendment would still have required ratification by three-fourths of the state legislatures-and three-fourths have already completed the onerous task of reapportionment with, as yet, none of the dire consequences foreseen by Dirksen. Though Ev vowed doggedly to make a fourth try next year, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield pronounced the Dirksen amendment "a dead issue...
...night last February, Mits had a flat tire while driving his family home after visiting Grace's relatives. As he got out to fix it, another car drew up and hovered nearby. When he opened the door to get back into his car, automatically turning on the inside lights, Mits became an easy target and was shot dead. Danny, who had lived with Mits and "loved him like a brother," was immediately pulled in for questioning by the police...
...questioned him about local robberies; some 14 hours later they turned him over to FBI agents, who got a confession 2½ hours later. Though warned of his right to counsel, Westover was not allowed to exercise it; he was held incommunicado for eleven days before being arraigned. He drew a 30-year sentence. Westover's case raises the issue of FBI collusion with local police to avoid the Mallory rule...
With Strozier's help on lineouts and hooker John Rice's fine play in the scrum, the offense controlled the ball most of the game. Cornell drew first blood, however, on a scissors play, a maneuver where the scrum half and fly half make a pincers-like movement on an outside defenseman...
...always called a 'constructivist,' " says Naum Gabo, now 75, "as if I were a kind of pedantic engineer on the borders of art." As a dazzling year-long European retrospective of Gabo's sculptures, drawings and paintings drew to a close in London last week, it was doubtful that constructivist would ever again carry that connotation. In a chorus of approbation, critics have proclaimed that Gabo is anything but a pedantic engineer. In fact, as the founder of constructivism, he ranks as one of the innovators of 20th century...