Word: datedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...date of their births- Sept 14- had come up first in Richard Nixon's draft sweepstakes, but it was not until 335 numbers had been picked that Robert S. Cartright '71 and L Gaunce Lewis '71 began to panic...
They had listened carefully and copied down each date and its number patiently. but the radio announcer's recap made it all too clear that their care and patience had been for nought...
September 14 was the first date selected last night in the newly-re-instituted annual national draft lottery. All U.S. men between the ages of 19 and 26 were assigned by birthday to a number between 1 and 366. The numbers represent the order in which each man will be called up for the draft, either in 1970 or when his exemption expires...
...drawing began at 8 p.m. at national draft headquarters in Washington. After a prayer, draft director Lewis B. Hershey ordered unlocked a black box containing 366 blue plastic capsules and had them poured into a large glass jar. Inside each capsule was a gummed paper printed with a date of the year...
...first capsule was pulled by Rep. Alexander Pirnie (R.N.Y.), ranking Republican on a special House subcommittee on the draft. He unfired the paper and handed it to a Selective Service representative who announced the date and pasted it on a display board. The following capsules were drawn by members of the Selective Service System's youth advisory council- one representative of each state, Guam, New York City, and the District of Columbia...