Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would make his announcement at his news conference the next day, he said, and explain his decision to the people on radio and television a few hours later. Then, together, the five went over an early draft of the statement the President proposed to make to the people...
...Suaviter, Portlier." That night, when the President walked into his office with his final draft (which he had edited considerably with black pencil after the last typing), he was relaxed and jovial. On his desk in front of the lectern rested an inch-high plate bearing the Latin motto, Suaviter in Modo, Fortiter in Re, and the translation, "Gently in Manner, Strongly in Deed."* When someone mentioned the motto, which has been on the President's desk for more than a year, he cracked: "Maybe I'd better hide that; that proves I'm an egghead...
...statement will first define H.L.U.'s liberalism and clarify the aims and purposes of the organization. The draft is not intended to be a pronouncement on the nature of American liberalism. There are "some liberals whom we would not like to be associated with," Frank said last night...
...nation-the British Caribbean Federation-was born in London last week as 16 delegates from the British West Indies signed a list of agreements over disputed points in its draft constitution. After ten years of planning and two weeks of tough, full-time bargaining, the mood of the signing was one of quiet satisfaction rather than jubilation. As he wrote his name, Trinidad's Albert Gomes put the feeling into words: "I am sure this is an excellent constitution-because it does not please any of us entirely...
Colonel Feeney said he did not forsee a rise in the draft quota in the near future. The national quota is 6,000 for February, 16,000 for March, and 6,000 for April...