Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shores of Lake Michigan were taken over last month by dead alewives. The fish,*members of the herring family, washed ashore on every incoming wave, piling up on the beaches faster than bulldozers and tractors could clear them away. They filled the air with the odor of decay and drew swarms of mosquitoes and flies...
...they don't want much help," he points out. The number of courses has increased from 151 to 191 in the last five years. Most of the growth has come in languages and in offerings from architectural science, Celtic, history of science, and the Carpenter Center, which last summer drew a record 113 students to its courses...
...Broadway Theater, which has averaged about three successes, financial or critical, in recent seasons, was adorned with a dozen - most notably, the anguishingly funny America Hurrah. Even further afield, touring companies - which, according to Variety, drew $32 million in 1965-66 and have never topped $40 million - pulled in $43.6 million this season. That does not count one other extension of the road. London this month is showing no fewer than seven U.S. imports, from Hello Dolly! to The Odd Couple, and Amer ica Hurrah will open there in August...
...however, Western capital has got a grudging go-ahead. The Japanese government has adopted a program of "capital liberalization" under which it promises to open "a considerable number of fields" to foreign companies. "The government," says the Finance Ministry's Yusuke Kashiwagi, who drew up the program, "has now given its word that it will liberalize as much as possible, and when the Japanese government gives its word, it always keeps it. Look at our record...
...Polish-born author, a naturalized U.S. citizen, says that he drew upon the recollections of 700 Poles, Germans, Englishmen and Frenchmen to get his material; and it is otherwise obvious that many of the episodes here are factual. But even in warfare, carnage is relieved by inactivity or restless boredom. The only respite Kuniczak gives his readers is short inconsequential conversations and brief bursts of attempted Joycean lyricism. Laboriously, he relates the personal agonies of a one-armed Polish general and his mistress, a disillusioned American correspondent, a Jewish conscript from the Warsaw ghetto and an idealistic young Nazi officer...