Word: drews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kennedy supplied it by throwing away most of his text, giving Republican Rockefeller a string of verbal hotfoots, then swiftly wrapping up Rocky's own point: the U.S. needs leadership to "tell the people the hard facts of existence that face us." All told, the deceptively boyish Kennedy drew ten rounds of applause in nine minutes, a rout which lent poignant irony to Rocky's smiling remark, made to a friend as he surveyed the influential crowd before dinner: "I'm just a sand-lot player...
Sponsored by the International Relations Club, the three-day New York session drew delegates from colleges and universities in the mid-Atlantic and New England states...
...final months of the International Geophysical Year drew near, President Eisenhower sent to eleven other nations* an invitation that was also a warning. Along with the U.S., the eleven had all sponsored IGY research projects in the Antarctic, and seven of them had longstanding territorial claims upon the vast (5,500,000 sq. mi.) continent. Without some kind of international agreement, wrote the President, the Antarctic might well become a dangerous source of "political rivalries." Last week, after a series of secret preliminary meetings, the world's first Antarctic conference opened in Washington-and paradoxically enough, the international climate...
...bellowed: "To success!" Clinking glasses with him, Beatrice responded: "Success to abstinence!" Then Behan lumbered off to the theater to catch a performance ..of his London hit, The Hostage. At play's end, to cries of "Author!" he took the stage, smiled with clear-eyed modesty, drew a big hand by saying: "I'm absolutely sober...
...they could ever want to be. Go-getting Jimmy Carter had been equally busy since April, getting set for them. With Lions Club support, he formed the Plains Development Corp., raised $6,000, bought a site opposite the railroad station and adjoining the drugstore. Town labor cleared it. Carter drew plans to Dr. Sills's sketched outlines. Result: a 30-ft.-by-30-ft. concrete-block building, ready for early August occupancy, with offices for the doctor and his wife, waiting rooms (separate for whites and Negroes), two 10-ft.-by-10-ft. examination and treatment rooms. Dr. Sills...