Word: drews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sidelight to a power struggle. A few days ago, in a flash of their earlier exuberance, they erected a "Goddess of Democracy" at the northern end of the square. The 30-ft.-high sculpture, fashioned from plaster-covered Styrofoam and bearing a marked resemblance to the Statue of Liberty, drew contemptuous comments from the government -- and admiration from thousands of onlookers...
...came to symbolize everything the West found incomprehensible and baffling about the East: his intense, ascetic spirituality and air of otherworldly detachment; his medieval, theocratic mind-set, which drew its parallels and precedents from the Islamic world of the 7th century; the mystical certitude that he spoke in the name of God, his country and Muslims everywhere...
That speech drew a standing ovation from virtually the entire assemblage. Even President Mikhail Gorbachev applauded briefly. More significantly, the new KGB boss, Vladimir Kryuchkov, told reporters after Vlasov's moving outburst that the new Soviet legislature would consider following the U.S. fashion and naming a committee to oversee intelligence operations...
...personal antics sometimes drew more attention than his political stands, and his name was in effect synonymous with all actions the council took...
...report drew attention in the national press, and Bell says that although he wrote the report, Watson was "greatly responsible" for building up consensus for it among Harvard's Black professionals...