Word: drawed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...world at large is not in the habit of regarding the German question as a laughing matter. The pundits view it with the utmost gravity; they can, of course, draw on abundant evidence from the past to justify their alarm. It is not for me to quarrel with their pronouncements, but what they fail to see is the ludicrous side of German events. I should like to redress the balance. Granted that the opening of the Berlin Wall was a moment of high drama, but the consequences turned into low comedy almost overnight...
...showdown on the civil rights bill demonstrates, Mandela's presence in the U.S. throws a sharper light on domestic racial matters. At the first stop on his itinerary, the mostly black Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, the crowd needed little encouragement to draw comparisons between the problems of South African blacks and their own dilemmas. As he spoke about the inadequacy of schools for blacks in South Africa, some of his listeners shouted back, "Same here!" When he went on to complain that in South Africa whites control the education of blacks, others in the crowd picked...
...Center than inside. The streets were often filled with protesting gay activists, who demanded more Government money to help find a cure for AIDS and provide care for those afflicted. Said Paul Boneberg, head of a group called National Mobilization Against AIDS: "We have to take this opportunity to draw the world's attention to discrimination and underfunded research and medical care that characterize the AIDS problem. People are dying, and these protests move policy forward...
...engineer who moved to the U.S. in 1977, has returned to Poland as an executive with SerVaas, an Indianapolis investment firm. The company's joint ventures in Poland include a fishing fleet and a home-building enterprise, as well as Hanna-Barbera's largest animation studio, where Polish artists draw the cels for Yogi Bear and Flintstones cartoons...
...Lendl too is aging in a sport increasingly dominated by those in or barely out of their teens. Of the 127 other players in the men's draw, about 120 will be younger. His deadliest rivals, Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg, are veterans of half a dozen years on the pro tour at, respectively, 22 and 24. Already these fresh-faced youths show signs of ennui. Says Arthur Ashe, the former everything of U.S. tennis: "Half a dozen 20-year-olds are playing now with net worths around $15 million to $20 million. It's natural their desire will drop...