Word: drews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the impending tenure vote on Associate Professor of History Drew R. McCoy was not a primary factor in their honoring him, council members said it would test the role students can have in department hiring decisions...
Russians have always loved their books profoundly. Literature has sometimes sustained the Russians when almost everything else was gone. During the siege of Leningrad, the city's population, frozen and starving down to the verge of cannibalism, drew strength by listening to a team of poets as they read on the radio from the works of Pushkin and other writers. "Never before nor ever in the future," said a survivor, "will people listen to poetry as did Leningrad in that winter -- hungry, swollen and hardly living." Today Russians will fill a stadium to hear a poetry reading...
Razo's arrest last July on suspicion of 13 armed robberies drew national media attention and renewed concern about the experience of minority students at elite East-coast universities...
...minuses outweigh the pluses," Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said after the vote. He called key plant-closing provision that drew heavy fire from the Administration "economic terrorism...
...smile could raise welts, and her dinner-table conversation regularly drew blood, some as blue as her own. She dismissed her cousin Franklin Roosevelt as "two-thirds mush and one-third Eleanor." When Columnist Joseph Alsop, another cousin, attributed grass-roots support to Wendell Willkie, the Republican hope to topple F.D.R. in 1940, she said yes, "the grass roots of 10,000 country clubs." It was she who demolished Thomas E. Dewey, the 1944 G.O.P. candidate, with the gibe that "he looks like the little man on the wedding cake...