Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provisions of the Potsdam Proclamation ordering the return of Japanese prisoners to their homes will be carried out. This new paragraph, added to the final draft in August, opens the way for Japan to demand return of some 77,000 prisoners whom it claims Russia still holds...
Since the end of World War II, few married men have had to worry about greetings from the draft board. This week, 500,000 of them may start watching for the postman. Awaiting President Truman's signature is a new set of Selective Service regulations which will make married men without children subject to a draft call. Selective Service estimated that about 200,000 will be eligible for induction after all the weeding out, that the first will be in camp before Christmas...
...After testing 280 Air Force recruits, Johns Hopkins psychologists advised draft boards not to "judge a book by the cover": men with trembling hands often perform better under pressure than those who turn up for induction placidly composed...
...Yellow Sea, a few miles off Korea's west coast. British carrier planes fixed and photographed the position of the ditched fighter and a U.S. helicopter dropped a marking buoy. A British 1,600-ton frigate, a South Korean motor launch and a U.S. Navy shallow-draft landing craft equipped with a crane moved in through treacherous sand bars to retrieve the prize, while a cruiser and carrier planes stood by to ward off enemy interference. Darkness and high tide interrupted the operation and the allied craft had to stay on the spot all night. Next morning they...
...Exception: Trabert, 20, who was dropped last week from the Naval Reserve (seaman) because his tennis duties kept him from attending drill, is now subject to the draft...