Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lives--now let the youngsters assert themselves in the world that would soon be theirs. To insure a future of freedom, all Negroes must rise to the cause. With these arguments and his colloquial humor, Hosea elicited adult support and allayed parental anxiety. And at a church rally Hosea drew hearty applause by pointing out that a lot rests on the integration movement: a free world depends on a free America, and America can't be a free country until the subjugation of the Negro is ended. He concluded optimistically, "With God and the American government on our side...
However, the organization of the Council, which calls for each of the 2700 bishops in the world to submit proposals and deliver a ten-minute speech drew criticism from the Archbishop...
Desk-Thumping Applause. Last week, a board of trustees appointed by the Canadian government finally decided to oust the 54-year-old Banks. Rising in Parliament, Labor Minister Allan J. MacEachen drew desk-thumping applause when he announced: "It is not in the interests of the union, the shipping industry, Canada or the public at large that Mr. H. C. Banks remain in office." The trustees then named a temporary union president for Canada's S.I.U., and the government continued to press two separate criminal actions against Banks on charges of conspiracy to beat up union foes...
...Democratic side of the New Hampshire primary, Lyndon Johnson got 29,317 write-in votes for President and Bobby Kennedy got 25,094 for Vice President. The 4,223-vote difference was not much, but it drew a sigh of relief that could be heard right in the White House oval office...
...instance of this human reluctance to judge, Miss Arendt said, was Pope Plus XII's refusal to condemn Hitler, which is currently being dramatized in Rolf Hochhuth's play, "The Deputy". Asked later if she felt Pope John XXIII would have kept silent under the same circumstances, Miss Arendt drew applause by saying she was "perfectly sure" he would not have done...