Word: drew
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...could have imagined, in so smugly prosperous a decade, that shantytowns would become tourist attractions? Until the mayor evicted them last summer, homeless people in San Francisco drew busloads of photo-snapping foreign tourists to their refugee camp in front of city hall. There, the visitors found a second city of cardboard condos, clogged with the traffic of shopping carts through makeshift living rooms, outfitted with easy chairs and dresser drawers. The waterless fountain steamed with stale urine; a sun-scorched lawn sprouted cigarette butts...
WHEN I was a small child I loved to read. I read everything I could get my hands on from Nancy Drew Mysteries to Judy Blume. As I continued on in school I found time and time again that my desire to submerge myself completely in the fantasy world of the novel was never quite fulfilled. While I could read anything during my free time, the scope of the novels I read for academic purposes was severely limited. I frequently found myself asking teachers to make an exception so that I could do outside reading projects on the likes...
...apartment. Attorneys for the Blicks maintain that the twins were innocently throwing pebbles at a friend's window to wake him when they were startled by the officer, who was moonlighting as a security guard and was wearing only a T shirt and jeans; they jumped him after he drew...
...group drew stares from passers-by andoccasional toots of support from motorists as theyproceeded down the middle of Brattle St., snarlingholiday traffic...
...destruction drew immediate fire from former Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, who said he had planted it some 25 years ago. "They're murderers," Vellucci told The Crimson. "That's my tree. They can't cut that down...