Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe will gather to talk it over. No government has sponsored their meeting, but hundreds of British and French publicists and politicians, including Winston Churchill, will attend. Some of them have a precise objective: to rouse so much backing for a U.S.E. that, by fall, delegates can assemble to draft a Western European constitution...
...When six or eight or ten such communions have taken such action, let the representatives meet and remain together long enough to know one another, long enough for another Pentecost. Let them draft a Plan of Union . . . Let the representatives be charged solemnly to keep their eyes upon the Christ rather than on the practices of a particular communion . .. Agreement is possible . . . Let the Methodists take the lead in a great affirmative decision, stating that we desire union...
Once in chronological order by chapters, his papers are set in type as a rough working draft. Galleys in hand, Churchill then dictates to secretaries who work in relays, filling in his transitions, anecdotes and explanations. Two are always on call for odd-hours dictation: in the 45-minute drive from London to Chartwell he may reel off 800 words of text. (But sometimes he labors for hours over a paragraph.) A man of enormous vitality, he may dictate as early as 8 a.m. and as late...
With impending draft legislation prominent in the College spotlight, the University Marine Corps unit announced yesterday that it can accept 12 more men in its College officer-procurement program...
Even without the draft to help them out, Navy is the logical candidate to win the Adams Cup tomorrow in the triangular contest over the Henley distance, The Middies have seven veterans from last year's formidable boatload, and as if that weren't enough, they have already turned in comfortable victories over both Princeton and Yale...