Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of Defense, disclosed Pentagon proposals for five manpower pools: 1) the regular military forces; 2) a Ready Reserve of 3,055,984 in National Guard and Reserve units; 3) a specialists' pool of 750,000 reservists, to be inducted as their talents are needed; 4) an annual draft of 300,000; 5) a special pool of untrained draft-age men to be inducted in the first months of World War III. Hannah said that his plan will mean eventual military duty for "all qualified young...
...Giants had to play through without Willie; his draft number came up. Mays applied for a deferment on the ground that he was the principal support of his mother and a passel of nine half-brothers and sisters back in Alabama; it was not granted. He flunked his pre-induction aptitude test. But the Army prevailed nonetheless. With Mays gone, the Giants finished 1952 in second place, 4½ games behind the Dodgers...
Principal cause of the West German surplus is the wartime Nazi practice of exempting all medical students from the military draft and imposing no restrictions on entrance into medical school. As a result, thousands of draft-dodging Germans whipped through medical school. Refugees from the East have added to the problem, and the output from West German schools is still high because the admission requirements are still low. Desperate for employment, about 20,000 West German doctors have emigrated to Africa and the Near East since 1945. Compared to this exodus, the transfers to East Germany represent only a trickle...
...first order of Communist business in China last week was "universal discussion" of a draft of a fine new constitution promulgated by the Central People's Government Council on June 14. The Communist press and literally every Communist organization in China were instructed to demonstrate by public study, discussion and praise that the draft "has received the enthusiastic welcome and wholehearted support of the people of the whole country," as one Peking newspaper...
...their collaboration, they discovered after getting together, turned on a spontaneous veto-rule: one of them would suggest an idea for a lyric or hum a snatch of melody; if the other actively opposed it, out it went without argument. Some days, when working to a deadline, they might draft all but the last eight bars of a song, and each go home to dream up his own solution. After that, a song usually got about a week's polishing before both were satisfied...