Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handing down his decrees. Judge Gadsby said "Draft exempt Harvard University students should be disillusioned and made to realize that they are permitted to go to college to study...
Carmichael was opposed to President Conant's United Military Service proposals of '50 because he believed some system of deferments was necessary and U.M.S. would draft everyone, including students...
...hurried on with his rough draft, Stendhal omitted many a detail, skipped from point to point with the eagerness of a writer who knows that most of the machinery of his story, to say nothing of the polish, can be worked in later. He introduced many minor characters by name only, breathing a mere suggestion of life into them. Lamiel was beginning to look more & more like the plan of one of Balzac's great social histories when Stendhal suddenly took sick and died...
Shock Treatment. In Glasgow, Scotland, George Patterson tried 51 remedies, finally stopped a ten-day attack of hiccups with a draft of hot mustard and cold water...
...Paris' gloomy old Quai d'Orsay, representatives of six neighboring nations stepped forward one by one last week to initial a draft treaty which would, if ratified, pool the armed forces of France, Germany, the Benelux nations and Italy into a common European army. Surrounded as the treaty was by more pessimism than at any time in its 15 months' gestation, the initialing ceremony was nonetheless something of a triumph when set against the tangled nationalisms and ancient hatreds of Europe...