Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David followed this announcement by saying that he felt the prospect of blanket deferment for students in graduate schools was better now than ever before...
...burglary, Convict Holmes broke through in a grassy plot outside the prison walls, hopped over a 7-ft. picket fence, and disappeared into the surrounding city of Baltimore. Nobody missed him until next morning, when a guard checked a motionless lump on Holmes' bunk. It was a wadded blanket and a pillow...
...purpose of the Financial Aid Center is to aid students meet their money problems," Monro explained. Any increase in charges will be compensated for, wherever it seems necessary, although no blanket percentage hikes in scholarships can be promised, he added...
...Administration had requested blanket authority to draft eighteen-year-olds, but the bill as it stands now could interfere seriously with this program. In deference to the mothers of present and prospective eighteen-year-olds, who seem to constitute a politically influential group, the sub-committee's bill directs local draft boards to take all "available" men in the nineteen-to-twenty-six pool before moving into the eighteens. And to deal with the transition period for the country's colleges, the new bill provides that 75,000 men, chosen on the basis of nationwide tests, will be sent back...
...would be possible, of course, to space radar so close together that virtually all blind spots would be eliminated. But radar stations are complicated, expensive, and need up to 100 men each. To cover the U.S. with a gapless blanket of radar would cost more in money, electronics and men than the protection would be worth...