Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hide the scars that remained on his neck from his suicide attempt. Moving about the country with speed and stealth, Moulin managed to weld together mutually mistrustful Frenchmen of the left, right and center. He created a clandestine press, arranged the sabotage and harassment of Nazi detachments, and drew up plans for massive help for the eventual Allied landings. While the Nazis searched frantically for him, Moulin, nicknamed "the King of Shadows," held a Paris meeting of the 16 most important leaders of the underground, who elected him president. But in June 1943, Moulin was captured near Lyon...
While that statement drew enthusiastic applause from the 5,000 delegates to the Bureau's annual convention in Philadelphia, Shuman raised the roof with his hardest-hitting attack yet on the role of Government in agriculture. "No self-respecting farmer wants to become a member of a permanently subsidized peasantry," he stormed, but "farmers already are far down the road in their dependence on Government payments for their livelihood." Just how far, Shuman made plain. Nearly 20% of this year's $12 billion in net farm income, or about $2.1 billion, he said, came in the form...
...first Army goal was scored at 2:35 of the first period on a play that was to become all too familiar before the end of the evening. Cadets Phil Riley and Kevin Kelley worked the puck up the side of the rink and drew the Harvard defense to them. Then Kelley passed to Laurence Hansen who was open in the center. Hansen had an easy shot, and converted. The following four goals were variations on this theme...
...London, the Treasury announced that during November reserves dropped another $109.2 million, shrinking Britain's international bank balance to $2,343,600,000, lowest in seven years. There were whispers that even these figures hid the true dimensions of the drain. Last week Britain drew another SI billion in financing, this time from the International Monetary Fund, to pay off short-term loans that had been contracted earlier to support the pound...
During the years that Drew Pearson's syndicated column "Washington Merry-Go-Round ran in the Fairbanks, Alaska, News-Miner, Pearson's most constant detractor was C.W. (for Charles Willis) Snedden-who happens to be the News-Miner's Publisher. It seemed to Snedden that the columnist never got anything right about Alaska, not even the cost of a gallon of gas in Fairbanks, which Pearson quoted at $1 (actual price at the time: 51? to 54?). Finally Snedden could stand no more. "The garbage man of the fourth estate " his paper sneered in an editorial...