Word: day
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MONDAY was the first day of December and the first real snowfall. It was cold and quiet and flavored with post-vacation inertia. Monday night the U.S. government, as if waiting for a tranquil moment, pulled oil the piece de resistance of all its absurdities...
...asked her to "tell me when." She put a wooden cylinder in my hand. said "now," and got to work. My hand clenched into a fist and then relaxed. Mrs. Gibson said, "There now, the pain's all over. You hurt yourself more than that 20 times a day. Right...
...wondrous ways. It was arbitrary, erratic, and unpredictable. The disposition of thousands of lives was enigmatic, inscrutable for mere mortals. You heard directly contradicting cases of IVF qualifications, of C.O. is won and lost, of prosecution of resisters. The moods of your board-members, the weather on the day your case came up the length of your hair, and most important. you finances were all factors that played on your draft situation. You couldn't know anything until they came to your case...
...local boards that don't exhaust their source of healthy. undeterred I-A's. We have to conclude that most boards are going to march well down the rank list to fill their quotas, and that only the blessed gentleman at the very end of the list (with birth day numbers of, say, over 325), can breathe deeply again. Maybe...
...Committee adopted the majority recommendation last Monday by a margin of three votes. That decision, too, was kept secret, and the Faculty did not learn of it until the next day. And even then it was asked to sit and listen...