Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found first in the Harvard plays and letters of the period, occur again and again in the great autobiographical novels. Though the eventual failure of Welcome to Our City produced a temporary disenchantment with the University and Professor Baker, Wolfe later acknowledged his debt to both. In the first draft of Of Time and the River he wrote: "Harvard--the one place he had found where utter freedom had been given him to read think and say what he liked.... Few places have meant more...
...arguing for a reconsideration of membership in the association, he pointed out that the NSA offers a means for discussion of such topics as tuition and board rates, draft laws, integration, and federal aid to education...
Political Career. Named the republic of Lebanon's first minister to Washington and delegate to the U.N.'s founding conference in San Francisco, he helped draft the U.N. Covenants on Human Rights, won a name in the U.S. as "the good Malik" to distinguish him from Russia's U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik. Returning in 1955 to his Beirut university post, he was called back to public life as President Chamoun's Foreign Minister after the Suez crisis, charged with carrying out a policy that allied Lebanon more closely with the West than ever before. Though...
Attorney General Almond was not at that meeting, but in the days that followed his office helped draft the legislation of massive resistance. In four weeks, the Virginia general assembly passed 16 school bills. Principal steps in massive resistance...
Spofford attributed a slight increase in freshman enrollment in the program to the tense international situation, a direct contrast to last year's talk of military cutbacks and a suspension of the draft...